Getting online price quotes via command line fails

[Daniel Rosenberg]

Quick update: I normally started GnuCash, got todays price quotes, saved
and closed it. The trace file is empty.

Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 7. Sep. 2016 um
10:50 Uhr:

> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 7. Sep. 2016 um 10:36 Uhr:
>
>> On 7 September 2016 at 09:25, Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am running GnuCash 2.6.13 on Windows. Getting price quotes for
>> currencies
>> > works using the GUI.
>> >
>> > I am trying to get the price quotes from a command line with the
>> following
>> > command:
>> > gnucash --add-price-quotes C:\myfile.gnucash
>>
>> Have you really got your accounts file in the root of C:? That sounds
>> like a bad idea.
>>
>> No, my accounts file is in another directory, but for testing purposes I
> put a copy of it there.
>
>
>> > The Strawberry Perl window opens and closes quickly and no quotes are
>> > retrieved. This also happens on normal GnuCash startup.
>>
>> What do you mean by the final statement?  Do you mean that
>> gnucash C:\myfile.gnucash
>> also fails?  If so then this is not an issue with the quotes but just
>> with running from the command line.
>>
>> This will show you where to find the trace file which will likely have
>> more information.
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>
>
> I will check the trace file, thanks for the link.
> Runnig 'gnucash C:\myfile.gnucash' from the command line works, it opens
> my GnuCash data file.
> What I meant was that the Strawberry perl windows opens and closes quickly
> on GnuCash startup (just as it does when manually executing 'gnucash
> --add-price-quotes C:\myfile.gnucash'). This was not the case before
> installing the online price quote.
> Hence my question if the price quotes are (or should be) automatically
> updated on GnuCash startup.
>
>
>>
>> Colin
>>
>