User Guide

Chapter 1: ColdFusion Tags 41

Usage CFEXECUTE is available on Windows NT 4.0 and UNIX platforms. Do not put any

other ColdFusion tags or functions between the start and the end tags of CFEXECUTE.

Also, CFEXECUTE tags cannot be nested.

Exception CFEXECUTE throws the following exceptions:

• If the application name is not found, an Application File Not Found exception

will be thrown.

• If the output file cannot be opened, an Output File Cannot be opened will be

thrown.

• If the effective user of the ColdFusion executing thread does not have

permissions to execute the process, a security exception will be thrown.

• The time out values must be between 0 and some high number (to be

determined).

Example <!----------------------------------------------------------------------

This example illustrates use of the CFEXECUTE tag.

----------------------------------------------------------------------->

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>CFEXECUTE</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<H3>CFEXECUTE</H3>

<P>

This example executes the Windows NT version of the netstat network

monitoring program, and places its output in a file.

<CFEXECUTE NAME="C:\WinNT\System32\netstat.exe"

ARGUMENTS="-e"

OUTFILE="C:\Temp\output.txt"

TIMEOUT=”1”>

</CFEXECUTE>

</BODY>

</HTML>