Re: where does exec look for the program?

Daniel, the web server is using php_mod, so its not compiled as cgi I tried what you suggested, with a slight mod to make it parse: $cmdline = "\"$fullname\" . \"Micro-Magic\" . \"$SerialNo" ; $RegKey = exec("/home/umagic/cgi-bin/regkey \"$cmdline\"", $msgs,$rc) ; Its still not finding regkey to execute. Its never getting to the command line. regards, Rich Peters Micro-Magic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Rezny" <daniel@mail.viapvt.sk> To: "Rich Peters" <rpeters@micro-magic.com>; "php-list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] where does exec look for the program? > Hello Rich, > > Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 8:07:06 PM, you wrote: > > > RP> Hello, this is my first time on this list, so be gentle. I am also new to > RP> PHP. > > RP> I have compiled a small c program called regkey, which computes a key. > RP> I have it installed in my cgi-bin of my webserver It is marked as > RP> executable (755), and it runs correctly from a telnet session. > > RP> I am trying to exec it from a php file. the code below always fails with a > RP> code of 2, or file not found. > > RP> <?php > RP> // compute new key > RP> $cmdline = "\"$fullname\" . \"Micro-Magic\" . > RP> \"$SerialNo" ; > > RP> $RegKey = exec("/home/umagic/cgi-bin/regkey $cmdline", $msgs,$rc) ; > ?>> > > RP> I have heard that you can only exec things in the apache path. Is there a > RP> way to work around this? the following works: > > RP> $RegKey = exec("ls -d", $msgs,$rc) ; > > RP> regards, > > RP> Rich Peters > > > Do you have php compiled as cgi to apache? > $cmdline = "\"$fullname\" . \"Micro-Magic\" . > \"$SerialNo\""; > $RegKey = exec("/home/umagic/cgi-bin/regkey $cmdline", $msgs,$rc); > > try this > With last quote in the and of line 1 > -- > Best regards, > Daniel mailto:daniel@mail.viapvt.sk > >