Powershell not exiting when called by SAB

[Mills]

I use some postprocessing powershell scripts (called by a bat file), and when they are called by SABnzbd in postprocessing they never exit. If I grab the commandline being executed with process explorer, and paste it into cmd, it runs perfectly fine.

The little output log added (thank you devs!) when I kill the script just shows up to the powershell execution and nothing afterward. Even if I modify the powershell script to just run dir, it will still hang. The strange thing is this worked just fine on my Windows 7 computer. Not sure how to debug this. Would appreciate any help.

Version: 0.5.0
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

EDIT: This seems to be a common problem with powershell in general when being called by other programs. /EDIT
EDIT2: Screw Powershell I just rewrote everything in C#. /EDIT2

Thanks,

Mills

[shypike]

Yeah, somehow MS had to screw up.
You didn't think they'd make a really usable scripting language, now did you? 

[mikeyj]

I'm having a similar problem with Robocopy.  The first time this code runs it's fine but it never exits and any item in the queue that follows will not process.

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robocopy M:\!Processing\_tv\ M:\!Processing\_tvfinished\ /E /XD _* /MOV /MON:1 /MOT:1

Any thoughts?
Thx,
Mike

[shypike]

Of course it doesn't exit.
The /MON and /MOT parameters will make it run forever.
You cannot use those in a script.
See:
http://www.stevelu.com/TechnicalArticle ... /1206.aspx