Re: passthru()/exec()/system() Errors
| From: | julien Beauviala | Date: | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:42:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: passthru()/exec()/system() Errors | ||
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On (30/04/03 01:42), Robert Hinojosa wrote:
>
> I can do passthru("ls -la"), etc. just fine. but I am unable to do a
> passthru("fping .")
>
> Fping is a very useful utility, and I'd very much like to use it in my PHP
> scripts but am currently unable to. Via command line, it works perfectly.
> But through Apache, I get no output.
[snip]
> Fping is in /usr/sbin, but I've also tried moving it to /sbin, /bin, the
> same dir as the PHP script, chown'ing to nobody, etc.
>
> Any suggestions? I've had many problems with permissions in my command
> executions, but never this much.
Try it like so :
<?
$host = "www.php.net";
$fping =
/usr/sbin/fping -sdC 1 $host;
echo $fping;
?>
HTH
j.