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

----- 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 12:30 PM Subject: 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> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010111051380.21695-100000@beatrice.kefta.com> <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 > Daniel, I looked again and found a missing end quote. $cmdline = "\"$fullname\" . \"Micro-Magic\" . \"$SerialNo\"" ; $RegKey = exec("/home/umagic/cgi-bin/regkey $cmdline", $msgs,$rc) ; executing this command above now returns error 127 (im not sure what that means, from the above directory or cgi-bin My ISP wont let me see or modify the httpd.conf file regards, Rich Peters Micro-Magic