Re: exec and system do not work

> Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> hat am 26. August 2013 um 08:33 > geschrieben: > > > > 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"); Please show the output of the directory listing. Please us "ls -la" > > > > This does not - > > > > if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt")); > > { > >   $out = system("touch /var/www/orders.txt", $ret); Maybe you don't have write permissions on the folder? > >   $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. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Marco Behnke Dipl. Informatiker (FH), SAE Audio Engineer Diploma Zend Certified Engineer PHP 5.3 Tel.: 0174 / 9722336 e-Mail: marco@behnke.biz Softwaretechnik Behnke Heinrich-Heine-Str. 7D 21218 Seevetal http://www.behnke.biz