Re[2]: [PHP] where does exec look for the program?

Hello Rich, Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 9:24:11 PM, you wrote: RP> Return-Path: php-general-return-19679-daniel=mail.viapvt.sk@lists.php.net RP> Received: from toye.php.net (sourceforge.net [198.186.203.33]) RP> by kamzik.pvt.sk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id e9BJNmc83662 RP> for <daniel@mail.viapvt.sk>; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:23:48 +0200 (CEST) RP> Received: (qmail 16724 invoked by uid 1013); 11 Oct 2000 19:23:48 -0000 RP> Mailing-List: contact php-general-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm RP> Precedence: bulk RP> list-help: <mailto:php-general-help@lists.php.net> RP> list-unsubscribe: RP> <mailto:php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net> RP> list-post: <mailto:php-general@lists.php.net> RP> Delivered-To: mailing list php-general@lists.php.net RP> Received: (qmail 16718 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2000 19:23:48 -0000 RP> Message-ID: <036301c033b8$d5b21230$fa6929d0@rp> RP> Reply-To: "Rich Peters" <rpeters@micro-magic.com> RP> From: "Rich Peters" <rpeters@micro-magic.com> RP> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> RP> References: <NEBBJJOBDDCGOCOGAJGGEEEPCGAA.rmccluskey@incubanks.com> RP> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010111051380.21695-100000@beatrice.kefta.com> RP> <20001011135801.B30979@MageNet.com> RP> <029b01c033ae$14ceff10$fa6929d0@rp> <1633263665.20001011211240@mail.viapvt.sk> RP> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:24:11 -0700 RP> Organization: Micro-Magic RP> MIME-Version: 1.0 RP> Content-Type: text/plain; RP> charset="iso-8859-1" RP> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit RP> X-Priority: 3 RP> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal RP> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 RP> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 RP> Subject: Re: [PHP] where does exec look for the program? RP> X-UIDL: dc2fff08b1d8a395245da0c88f8cdafb RP> Daniel, RP> the web server is using php_mod, so its not compiled as cgi RP> I tried what you suggested, with a slight mod to make it parse: RP> $cmdline = "\"$fullname\" . \"Micro-Magic\" . RP> \"$SerialNo" ; RP> $RegKey = exec("/home/umagic/cgi-bin/regkey \"$cmdline\"", RP> $msgs,$rc) ; RP> Its still not finding regkey to execute. Its never getting to the command RP> line. RP> regards, RP> Rich Peters RP> Micro-Magic RP> ----- Original Message ----- RP> From: "Daniel Rezny" <daniel@mail.viapvt.sk> RP> To: "Rich Peters" <rpeters@micro-magic.com>; "php-list" RP> <php-general@lists.php.net> RP> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:12 PM RP> 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 RP> 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 RP> 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> ; >> ?>> >> >> RP> I have heard that you can only exec things in the apache path. Is RP> 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 >> >> Do you have corect sets a cgi-bin directory in httpd.conf? in my conf file is ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/html/cgi-bin/ and please try to call this only as cgi-bin/reg-key $cmdline. -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:daniel@mail.viapvt.sk