no output from .NET console app run from psexec

Question

I'm having a very strange problem where I run a managed .net console app on a remote server using psexec. I get this error "The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe".

Now I wrote an unmanaged C++ program to output to std::cout, and it works just fine.

Interestingly, if I run cmd.exe remotely, and use the /u (unicode) option, I don't get the error, but I get garbage text streamed back to the console.

Can anyone explain what might be going on here?

Cheers, Mark

Answer 1

To work around this problem, I remotely run a .cmd script, which runs the .net application, redirecting (">") its output to a file. I then "type" the file in the script, and I now get output back.

I still don't understand why the .net application's console output is getting lost, but this work-around does the job.

Mark