Logon to the CF server using the name of the user that CF was installed with and try running systeminfo.exe using a CMD prompt. My guess is that it is using a user that doesn't have permission to run that process, as I tried the second command you provided, and it worked just fine...
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Niven [mailto:scott_ni...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:39 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Running systeminfo with CFEXECUTE returns an empty string. Why? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Here's my code: <cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\systeminfo.exe" arguments="/FO CSV" variable="data" timeout="10" /> <cfdump var="#data#"> I've also tried running it without the arguments (see below). Both the code above and the code below return an empty string: <cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\systeminfo.exe" variable="data" timeout="10" /> <cfdump var="#data#"> Any ideas? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346489 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
