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

All the files are under my own directory and created by myself. could you tell me how can I give user permission? Or should I talk to admin to give user permission? Your answer is priceless. Thank you so much. LJ --- R'twick Niceorgaw <public@utkalika.net> wrote: > Apache doesn't run as you .. most probably it will > be something like apache > or nobody or www (to find out check with your server > admin or see in apache > httpd.conf file for User directive) you need to give > write permission to > that user in the directory where you are creating > the tar files. > > R'twick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "love jiangnan" <lovejiangnan2003@yahoo.com> > To: "R'twick Niceorgaw" <public@utkalika.net> > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:19 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Could someone look at my problem > in shell-exec? > > > > I am not sure. I use the webpage space from my > > university. Do you think it is possible the > problem > > of written permission? > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > http://search.yahoo.com > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com