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Unable to execute child process

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#270 opened on Aug 14, 2020

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I have a created a windows service using node-windows and it seems to work properly. But as soon as I have my child process call it does not execute my child process and if i switch to running it from cmd instead as a service it opens my executable. This is nothing related to type of user as i only have one user as administrator Below is my code

Tried using spawn const command = 'jre-8u261-windows-x64.exe' const bat = spawn(command, [],{ shell: true, // use to run in a shell if you need detached: true, // important stdio: "ignore", });

Using exec: const test = exec('jre-8u261-windows-x64.exe' ); Please suggest

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Investigate differences in spawning child processes from a Windows service vs command prompt. Check if the executable path is absolute or relative, consider session 0 isolation, and verify that the service runs with appropriate privileges. Explore node windows specific logging and error handling for spawn/exec calls.
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javascriptnodejs
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