I am trying to turn a script I have running on Windows 2000 into a Windows Service. I can create the service and run it with no problem but one of my system calls that works in an interactive session does not get any return information when executing as a service. The code does an rcmd (remote call to another server) and executes a command to get information back on a proceses memory utilization. This is the line of code that runs the command:

$status=`rcmd \\\\$servers[$i] tlist $pid | findstr Working`;
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When running as a service the $status variable comes up empty, but in an interactive session it has the info I need. Any suggestions on how to get this information back? Also the service is running as a user with the permissions needed to execute the command. Thanks.

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