RE: [PHP] passthru

Just guessing here. On our setup, PHP runs as nobody. Is there a permissions problem around "someProgram"? Kirk > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dickson [mailto:midickso@indiana.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:27 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] passthru > > > On the server itself (to which I have root access) I type: > > someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3 > > and it runs properly, returning the proper output to standard > output (the > screen). I can do this from anywhere on the server (for > example, from the > same directory where my php scripts are located, > /var/www/html/blah), and I > can do it as the same user that apache runs as ('apache'). > > BUT, when I try: > > <?php passthru("someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3"); ?> > > it fails. I get no output at all. I can check that > everything else is ok > by doing something like > > <?php passthru("someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3"); passthru("echo > 'finished'"); > ?> > > which then returns just the word 'finished' to the browser. > > I CAN do other things via passthru, for example, > > <?php passthru("man tar"); ?>, and > > <?php passthru("ls -al"); ?> > > and so on. I am running php as an apache module. I am NOT > running php in > 'safe mode'. > > Any ideas what is going wrong here? > > Thanks, > > Michael Dickson