RE: [PHP] I think this is a bug...cant use exec commands.

I tell you the truth. I have only 1 php.ini. There are other ini files I have looked at but I have not found anything in them about safe mode. Everything has been double or triple checked. Still not able run any shell_exec commands from the command line. I need the output from free so if I use exec() <?php exec("free -b", $data, $result); $data = str_replace(' ',' ',$data); $data = str_replace(' ',' ',$data); $data = str_replace(' ',' ',$data); $data = str_replace(' ',' ',$data); $dataArray = explode(' ',$data); $total = $dataArray[16]; $used = $dataArray[17]; echo $used.chr(10); echo $total.chr(10); ?> Exec complains that "free" is not in /usr/local/php/bin/ directory. ( I think that's the directory but whatever it was, it wasn't pointing at the web directory where my script is.) Really someone should try this script. It's harmless. 'Free' is a nix command. And BTW [snip from original] > Warning: shell_exec(): Cannot execute using backquotes in Safe Mode in > /var/www/html/swap/mem.php on line 3 [/snip] Is how that line should read. The complaint is about the script I an\m running called mem.php. Originally named swap.php. I wasn't paying close enough attention when I cut from the bugs.php.net page and pasted. :)