Help With Stdoutread Inside Function

[sublimnl]

I'm writing a script that our users can run after logging onto their VPN client from a remote site. This script will detect their logon script (it's different for many users), copy it to their machine from the netlogon share on one of our Domain Controllers, and then run the logon script for them and then give a report of the mapped drives.

The problem I am having is that StdoutRead is only returning the first line of the output from "net user /domain username" when the code is run from within a function. If I take this same exact code and run it as an independent script it returns all of the output! Code is below...thanks for the help!

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Func Mapper()
        
    If DriveMapAdd("","\\activehouii\netlogon",0,"INTECENG\" & $INP_User,$INP_Pass) > 1 Then
        MsgBox(4096,"Error","Error connecting to remote server.  Bad Username or Password?")
        PassGui()
    EndIf
    
    $message = "Finding your logon script..."
    SplashTextOn("LogonStatus", @CR & $message, 400, 50,-1,-1,1,"Arial",10)
    
    $console = Run(@SystemDir & "\net user /domain " & $INP_User, @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, 2)
    While ProcessExists($console)
        Sleep(500)
    WEnd

    $output = StdoutRead($console, -1)
    MsgBox(4096,"",$output)

;Parse the output for the logon script
    $position = StringInStr($output,"Logon Script")
    $logonscript = StringTrimLeft($output,$position+12)
    $position = StringInStr($logonscript,@CR)
    $logonscript = StringMid($logonscript,1,$position)
    $logonscript = StringStripWS($logonscript,1)
    $logonscript = StringStripCR($logonscript)

;Update the status message and copy the logonscript
    $message = "Copying logon script '" & $logonscript & "'"
    ControlSetText("LogonStatus","","Static1", @CR & $message)
    FileCopy("\\activehouii\netlogon\" & $logonscript, @UserProfileDir & "\" & $logonscript,1)

;Update the status message and RUN the logonscript
    $message = "Running logon script '" & $logonscript & "'"
    ControlSetText("LogonStatus","","Static1", @CR & $message)
    MsgBox(4096,"",@UserProfileDir & "\" & $logonscript)
    RunWait(@UserProfileDir & "\" & $logonscript,@SystemDir, @SW_HIDE)

;Display report of mapped drives
    $mapped = DriveGetDrive("network")
    $mapdisplay = ""

    For $i=1 to UBound($mapped,1)-1
        If DriveMapGet($mapped[$i]) = "" Then ContinueLoop
        $mapdisplay = $mapdisplay & "Mapped " & StringUpper($mapped[$i]) & " to " & DriveMapGet($mapped[$i]) & @CRLF
    Next

    SplashOff()
    MsgBox(4096,"Done", "The following drives have been mapped: " & @CRLF & @CRLF & $mapdisplay)
    
EndFunc

[GaryFrost]

need beta, try:

$console = Run(@SystemDir & "\net user /domain " & $INP_User, @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
    While 1
         $line = StdoutRead($console)
         If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
         $output = $output & $line @CRLF
    Wend

[sublimnl]

Not sure if you are saying that I need the beta or that you don't have it installed to test, but FYI I'm running the latest beta.

Tried that though and got the same result.

[sublimnl]

bump

[DaveF]

Not sure if you are saying that I need the beta or that you don't have it installed to test, but FYI I'm running the latest beta.

Tried that though and got the same result.

I don't know by this if you've tried precisely the above code from gfrost's post or if you had just added the loop around StdoutRead. The ProcessExists/Sleep from the original function won't be necessary if you call StdoutRead repeatedly in a loop like that since StdoutRead will wait to return until there's output to be read, and the While loop will continue until End-Of-File(or data stream in this case) is read and StdoutRead sets @error to -1.

My concern is that you're waiting for the process to exit, THEN reading its output. While if seen this work OK in practice, I'd be concerned that all bets are off as far as Windows is concerned re: preserving a process's data once the main thread has exited.

[Edit: I had started composing this prior to the bump.]

Edited April 3, 2006 by DaveF

[sublimnl]

Yep, I tried the exact code from gafrost and get the same behavior. Just get the first line when called as a function. If I save this function with gafrost's code to its own script and run it I get the entire output.

[GaryFrost]

Yep, I tried the exact code from gafrost and get the same behavior. Just get the first line when called as a function. If I save this function with gafrost's code to its own script and run it I get the entire output.

without your whole script we could guess till we turn blue.

So I'm going to guess that another part of your script is causing the problem.

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