Re: Supress error message to apache log?

I feel dumb... $string="rpm -qd $rpmname 2>/dev/null |head -1 |sed s?\"$documentdir\"?\"\"? |cut -d\"/\" -f2"; On Monday, March 5, 2001, at 09:33 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > I have the following php function- > > function doclink ($documentdir, $rpmname, $doc_file) { > $string="rpm -qd $rpmname |head -1 |sed s?\"$documentdir\"?\"\"? |cut > -d\"/\" -f2"; > $rpm_installed=exec($string); > $DOC_ABSOLUTE="$documentdir/$rpm_installed"; > if (file_exists("$DOC_ABSOLUTE/$doc_file")) { > if (is_link("$rpmname")) { > unlink("$rpmname"); > } > symlink("$DOC_ABSOLUTE", "$rpmname"); > return "$rpmname/$doc_file"; > } else { > return "failed"; > } > } > > later its used when creating a page of documentation links for the user, like this- > > $mysqldoc=doclink($docdir, "MySQL", "manual_toc.html"); > if (strstr($mysqldoc,"failed")) { > echo "<!-- could not locate MySQL documentation -->\n"; > } else { > echo "<P><font face=$font color=$color size=$size><A > href=\"$mysqldoc\">MySQL > Documentation</A></font>\n"; > } > > Works beautifully, problem is- if the rpm isn't installed that's querried in the > doclink > function, the error message rpm puts out is sent to the apache error.log. I don't want > that. > > Is there a way to supress the error message for that exec call? > > Thanks > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Michael A. Peters > Abriasoft Senior Developer > > http://www.abriasoft.com/ > > (510) 623-9726x357 > Fax: (510) 249-9125 > -- > 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 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael A. Peters Abriasoft Senior Developer http://www.abriasoft.com/ (510) 623-9726x357 Fax: (510) 249-9125