Re: Help on running external command

2008. 02. 20, szerda keltezéssel 14.31-kor Mário Gamito ezt írta: > Hi, > > I need to run an eternal command from a PHP page. > > My code is: > " > $username= 'lixo'; > > $username = 'lixo'; > > exec('su - vpopmail -c > "/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake/home/vpopmail/domains/wwlib.lan/" . $username'); > " > > But I get the error: > "/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake/home/vpopmail/domains/wwlib.lan/: Not a > directory" > > Which means that the $username variable isn't being appended to the string. you're putting . and a variable inside a string delimited by ' which will never work. to avoid confusion like this, why not build the string first, then exec() it? that way you can always echo out the string to check what might be the problem. $cmd = 'su - vpopmail /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake/home/vpopmail/domains/wwlib.lan/' . $username; exec($cmd); greets Zoltán Németh > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Warm Regards, > Mário Gamito >