Re: Could someone look at my problem in shell-exec?

Does apache has write permission in the directory where you are trying to create the file? ----- Original Message ----- From: "love jiangnan" <lovejiangnan2003@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: [PHP] Could someone look at my problem in shell-exec? > Hello, everybody, > > > I am a new user in PHP. When I try to execute shell > command in php, I met some problem. > > > Either I running shell_exec or backstick(``), when I > asked server to run tar command, it did not respond. > > For example, if I type ls -al, cd > $dir, `more > $file`, the server worked properly. However, when I > type `tar cvf a.out $filename', it doesn't work. When > I type tar tvf b.out(b.out is the result when I run > tar on server instead from php`), it works OK. > > Does someone else meet the same problem like me? If > the server is in safemode, it should not run any shell > command in php, right? Since my server can run other > shell command, why cannot it run tar cvf? > > I had read a lot about it from manul but did not get > the answer. could you help me? > > Thank you very much. > > LJ > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >