Executing a batch file using CFEXECUTE

Question

I tried to run test.bat file using cfexecute. It shows timeout error after loding for sometime. The output file is blank. But when i double click the test.bat file it works fine. My code is this,

<cfexecute name="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" arguments="/C C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\test.bat" timeout="60" outputfile="C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\log_output1.txt"></cfexecute>

Answer 1

We recommend using CFX_EXEC (Windows) instead of the built-in CFExecute. When running BAT files, we've encountered many cases where we needed to run it under a separate Windows account that had privileges different than the CF Service. CFX_EXEC enabled us to specify the specific account whereas CFExecute doesn't have the option at all. We also use CFX_EXEC for performing IP/DNS look-ups as it's a lot faster than Java, honors TTL and doesn't cache the lookup results "forever".

Answer 2

If you want to run test.bat using cfexecute, test.bat should be the value of the name attribute, not the arguments attribute.

<cfexecute name="C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\test.bat" 
timeout="60" 
arguments ="whatever applies"
outputfile="C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\log_output1.txt">
</cfexecute>

Answer 3

Thanks for your response,

The batch file successfully executed after suppressing the 'Press any key to continue..'(pause) in the command line. It makes the cfexecute loading till timeout. That was the issue here.