PHP 4.0 Bug #8652 Updated: exec and system always return -1

ID: 8652 Updated by: cynic Reported By: simon.king@pipinghotnetworks.com Old-Status: Open Status: Duplicate Bug Type: Program Execution Assigned To: Comments: duplicate of #8466 Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-01-11 07:31:37] simon.king@pipinghotnetworks.com <? function run_command($command, $errmsg) { $lastline = exec("$command 2>&1", &$lines, $rc); if ($rc) { print("<pre>n"); print("$errmsgnn"); print("Command : $commandnReturned : $rcnOutputn------n"); print(join("n", $lines)."nn"); } return($rc); } $rc = run_command("/bin/uname -a", "Uname Failed!"); print("rc now = $rc"); ?> All the commands that I have tested (uname is just an example) have returned -1 as the return code, even though the command has executed perfectly well. I get the same error if I use system instead of exec. I cannot see how else to run a command and check to see whether it failed or not. I am using PHP RPMS downloaded from http://rpms.arvin.dk/php/ but this does not seem like a packaging error, so I am reporting it here. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8652