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in thread Getting Results back from System Call

The command runs in a Perl script when that script is run from a command prompt and not as a service. To run it as a service I am using the PDK and running perlsvc script.pl to create an executable and then installing that executable using script.exe -install. If I run script.exe from cmd it works fine when I run the service is when the rcmd command fails.
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Re: Re: Re: Getting Results back from System Call
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 09, 2003 at 12:38 UTC

    Your problem is almost certainly a permissions thing.

    Windows NT services run as LocalSystem by default. LocalSystem is a predefined local account and any service running under LocalSystem:

    • The service can NOT open HKEY_CURRENT_USER .
    • The service can open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY.
    • The service has no network credentials and can only access network resources using a null session.

    As rcmd requires network access, if the service was set up with the default "LocalSystem" account, then it won't have the privaleges required to run rcmd. This is not a perl problem.

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