Re: exec and system do not work

On Aug 25, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote: > Dear List - > > I'm lost on this one - > > This works - > > $out = system("ls -l ",$retvals); > printf("%s", $out); > > This does - > > echo exec("ls -l"); > > This does not - > > if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt")); > { > $out = system("touch /var/www/orders.txt", $ret); > $out2 = system("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt", $ret); > echo 'file2<br />'; > echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"); > } > > and this does not - > > if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt")); > { > exec("touch /var/www/orders.txt"); > exec("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt"); > echo 'file2<br />'; > echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"); > } > > Ethan > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > When you say "does not work", can you show what is actually not working? I believe the exec and system functions are likely working just fine, but that the commands you've passed to them may not be.