Failed to spawn process annoyance

Deadline
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I am trying to do simple commands like ‘set’ or ‘dir z:’ for testing purposes and I cannot.
Example:
Failure: Failed to spawn process “set” with “” arguments because: The system cannot find the file specified (System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception) (System.Exception)

Do I have to give it the path of the set command? I think it’s built into windows so I don’t even think I can give the path to it. Similar with the dir command.
Is there a config problem on my end?

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Deadline can only spawn actual executables. Commands like “set” or “dir” are built-in dos commands, so outside of a dos prompt, the OS doesn’t know what to do with them. However, you can workaround this by calling cmd.exe and passing those commands as arguments. See the bottom of the Remote Control section here for more info:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … te_Control

For example, to run “dir z:”, use this:

cmd /C dir z:

Cheers,

  • Ryan
3

Great. Thanks!