Starting an external process from a Rhino plugin?

Rhino Developer
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I am writing a plugin that calls an external exe using mono on a mac. When I try it from within my Rhino plugin it fails with a permissions error. If I run Rhino as root I can successfully call out to my external exe.

Any ideas on why this is? I can call the exe from the Terminal without sudo just fine.

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So the problem wasn’t actually that I needed to launch Rhino as root, it was that I needed to launch Rhino from the Terminal so the PATH was set correctly. With explicit paths to the executable I am able to run from within Rhino without root.

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Thanks for letting us know. I was really scratching my head over that one :slight_smile: