Re: executing bluez functions in java

From:

Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@epenguin.zzn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:25:46 GMT

Message-ID:

<uncTh.32476$AS6.26490@trnddc04>

Mithil wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am trying to schedule a script which runs a java file and that java
file executes a bluez linux command called hciconfig -i hci0 scan
which scans for bluetooth devices but i get an error in the cron log
file which is :

/home/mithil/t: line 2: clear: command not found
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "hcitool":
java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
       at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459)
       at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
       at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:431)
       at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:328)
       at test.main(test.java:6)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such
file or directory
       at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
       at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
       at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452)
       ... 4 more

The problem is obvious: Java can't find the program "hcitool", so try
giving a full path to hcitool.

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