Re: Problem with Exec()

First, make sure that sendmail is something the iUSR_machinename can run -- Just because you logged in as you can run it doesn't mean that the user that Apache/PHP is running as can run it. Next, forget about that goofy DOS backslash thing. Just use "/" for your paths. Finally, add the optional arguments to exec() exec("d:/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t -messagefile=d:/sendmail/msg.txt", $results, $error); while (list(,$line) = each($results)){ echo $line, "<BR>\n"; } if ($error){ echo "OS Error $error. Usually path/permissions.<BR>\n": } ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Haworth <JHaworth@witanjardine.co.uk> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: [PHP] Problem with Exec() > Hello list, > > I'm having a problem with Exec and Sendmail, on PHP-4 running under Apache > 1.3.14 on Windows NT. > > When I go to a DOS prompt and enter > > d:\sendmail\sendmail -t -messagefile=d:\sendmail\msg.txt > > it works fine. When I have any of the lines > > exec ("d:\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -messagefile=d:\sendmail\msg.txt"); > exec ("d:\\sendmail\\sendmail.exe -t -messagefile=d:\\sendmail\\msg.txt"); > $foo = exec ("d:\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t > -messagefile=d:\sendmail\msg.txt"); > $foo = exec ("d:\\sendmail\\sendmail.exe -t > -messagefile=d:\\sendmail\\msg.txt"); > > all that happens is my PHP script times out. If I remove this line, > everything works fine. I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I'm *very* > tired. Any ideas? > > > Cheers > Jon > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >