RE: [PHP] HELP (PLEASE) calling system() or exec() with lynx .. does not work

I've finally found out why, not a PHP thing. My version of Apache runs as the user nobody, and lynx tries to create temp files somewhere that I can't find. That somewhere is not writeable by the user nobody. Hopefully some else has been through this one. Sorry to post a non-php question -pete -----Original Message----- From: Pete Lancashire [mailto:petel@pdxeng.com] Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 1:33 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] HELP (PLEASE) calling system() or exec() with lynx .. does not work Time to ask the experts. I don't think it is really a PHP problem but dont know where to go next. I want to use lynx to either display and or save the the output of lynx. In my case a php URL thats been turned to ASCII text by lynx. I can't get lynx to 'see' the URL string if i do system("lynx -dump http://www.frustration.cxx"); nothing is returned by lynx. If is give it an illegal option such as -dxxx I get the error output from lynx, so I know I'm executing lynx. I've also tried quoteing the URL, and putting the whole thing into a variable first. system("lynx -dump \"http://URL\""); and exec("lynx -dump httpd://URL > /tmp/lynx.txt) will create the file, but it will be empty. but still the same. So, whats this frustrated person to do ? -pete -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net