"Brennan Stehling" <offwhite@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Phil,
>
> I would suggest that you log your jobs in a database and have an
> external process handle the jobs. You could run a Windows Service
> written with .NET which will use Query Notifications to monitor the
> jobs table for updates.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9x04ed2(VS.80).aspx
>
> Then the service can run the jobs separate from the web application
> which is not a good place for long running jobs. You could also run a
> scheduled job to process the jobs table if they do not have to be run
> immediately.
>
> One advantage here is that web application can run with limited rights
> while the Windows Service can run with the necessary permissions. Just
> be sure only a limited set of functions can be run through this process
> so that your website users are not running any number of arbitrary
> commands on your server with elevated privileges.
>
> Brennan Stehling
> http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
>
> Philipp Landolt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm developping a WebGUI where the user are able to create some
>> shell-commands and add them to a joblist.
>> 'Adding them to a joblist' means that these commands are stored in a
>> listbox
>> listbox_joblist then.
>> The joblist should be executed on the webserver then.
>>
>> How can I send this joblist to the webserver and execute each command
>> step
>> by step on the webserver?
>> Means e.g.
>> - Writing the commands to a file on the server and execute it as a
>> batch...
>> - open a telnet connection to the webserver and execute the command step
>> by
>> step ...
>> - etc.
>>
>> Do you have any ideas how this problem could be solved?
>> You're very welcome for good advices. Thanks a lot.
>>
>> regards
>> phil
>