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Thanks a ton, cj_1969! &nbsp;I tried your solution and it worked. &nbsp;During this process, it also got me thinking about permissions, and in the end I only needed to grant the IUSR_%computername% account access to python.exe and cmd.exe.<br />
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Thanks so much for getting me on the right track.
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Thanks a ton, cj_1969!  I tried your solution and it worked.  During this process, it also got me thinking about permissions, and in the end I only needed to grant the IUSR_%computername% account access to python.exe and cmd.exe.

Thanks so much for getting me on the right track.

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I am executing a python script on a web server running Windows 2003, IIS6, and FastCGI. &nbsp;I have have my web extensions all set up, and most python scripts run just fine from the browser. &nbsp;It's only when I try to make &quot;os.system&quot; calls that things fail.<br />
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I have a script here that runs fine from command line and generates textfile. &nbsp;When run from a web browser however, this does not work:<br />
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import os<br />
os.system('touch output.txt')<br />
os.system('echo 1 &gt;&gt;&nbsp;output.txt')<br />
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I have seen several others ask this same question all over the web since 2001, but no one ever seems to get a real answer. &nbsp;Does anyone know why this does not work in IIS? &nbsp;More importantly, does anyone know how to make this work in IIS?<br />
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Thanks.
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I am executing a python script on a web server running Windows 2003, IIS6, and FastCGI.  I have have my web extensions all set up, and most python scripts run just fine from the browser.  It's only when I try to make "os.system" calls that things fail.

I have a script here that runs fine from command line and generates textfile.  When run from a web browser however, this does not work:
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import os
os.system('touch output.txt')
os.system('echo 1 >> output.txt')
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I have seen several others ask this same question all over the web since 2001, but no one ever seems to get a real answer.  Does anyone know why this does not work in IIS?  More importantly, does anyone know how to make this work in IIS?

Thanks.

Python &quot;os.system&quot; calls using IIS6

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Python &quot;os.system&quot; calls using IIS6

Python "os.system" calls using IIS6