Software Deployment

Try setup /?
It may give you a list of command lines you can use.

Hi,

What i suggest you can first try to find out wether any msi is wrapped into that setup.exe.If msi would be there then there would be a custom action which would be after InstallFinalized that would be launching any executable.Check this out first then we could analyzed more abt it..

Regards,
anks_09

My first post on this forum...
Not enough information here, let me see if I can expand things a bit.
- There is no MSI files present or created during the install, it's just a setup.exe with .cab file.
- I have not been able to find a command line variable to stop application launch
- I would like to know if lines can be inserted into the setup.iss file to prevent the application launch
- I'm using setup.exe /s /sms /f1"z:\setup.iss" /f2"C:\Install-app.log" This works fine apart from starting the application on completion.
- the application is eSentinel Roster, a resource scheduling application

Once again thanks for all the help.

Russ.

How about launching a script to check for the process being started and terminate it at once?
run it prior to launching setup.exe

ex.
(You may want to change the MaxAllowedRunTime and WatchForProcessName value)

Const MaxAllowedRunTime = 120 '// if process has not started in 120 seconds then exit script
Const WatchForProcessName = "notepad.exe" '// process name to look for

Dim WaitForNotificationRequest, WMIService, Sink

Set WMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
& ".\root\cimv2")

Set Sink = WScript.CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemSink","SINK_")

WatchForProcessNameExecutionAndTerminate(WatchForProcessName)

Sub WatchForProcessNameExecutionAndTerminate(Name)
Dim WMIQuery, ElapsedRunTime

WMIQuery = "SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent " & _
"WITHIN 1 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_Process' " & _
"AND TargetInstance.Name = '" & Name & "'"

WMIService.ExecNotificationQueryAsync Sink, WMIQuery

ElapsedRunTime = 0 : WaitForNotificationRequest = True

While WaitForNotificationRequest
ElapsedRunTime = ElapsedRunTime + 1
WScript.Sleep(1000)

If ElapsedRunTime > MaxAllowedRunTime Then
EndNotificationRequest()
End If
Wend
End Sub

Sub SINK_OnObjectReady(wmiObject, wmiAsyncContext)
Call TerminateProcessByProcessId(wmiObject.TargetInstance.ProcessId)

EndNotificationRequest()
End Sub

Sub EndNotificationRequest()
WaitForNotificationRequest = False

Sink.Cancel()
End Sub

Function TerminateProcessByProcessId(ProcessId)
Dim ProcessList, Process

Set ProcessList = WMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = '" & ProcessId & "'")
For Each Process in ProcessList
Process.Terminate()
Next
End Function


You'll be here 'til Doomsday with this. Re-package it! :)

You could start the setup with:

start /wait setup.exe /s /SMS /f1"z:\setup.iss" /f2"C:\Install-app.log"
I have also seen different results with /SMS needing to be in ALL CAPS to work properly on some installs.