Re: Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

Yes --- it worked. Thank you so very much. I had searched the heck out of this to no avail. This is why I think developer communities are so great -- always someone smarter than me (not that it is a high bar <s>) and willing to help. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ken Kixmoeller <phphelp@comcast.net> wrote: > Yes -- Thanks Matjen and Daniel --- > > There *was* a stray backtick in there. Weird that we haven't run into it > before. > > Testing now. > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Ken Kixmoeller <phphelp@comcast.net>wrote: >> >>> Hi -- - >>> >>> Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new server. >>> The >>> new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using >>> "disable_functions="). One of the "banned" functions is exec(). >>> >>> The error log is reporting "shell_exec() has been disabled for security >>> reasons" --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code *anywhere*. >>> The >>> program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense. >>> >>> Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec() ??? >>> Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the >>> command, of course)? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Ken >>> >> >> The back tick(`) operator is also used for that same purpose. Maybe >> that's in your code? >> >> - Matijn >> >> >