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

From: Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 20:30:45 +0000
Subject: Re: Could someone look at my problem in shell-exec?
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I have 25m space in the server of my university. I can write ,modify file under my own account. In my webpage, I want to allow user to download files from different directory and server tar them to one file to return to user. LJ --- R'twick Niceorgaw <public@utkalika.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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