Re: system() command help please

I forgot to mention that I have indeed made sure that the path is correct and that the permissions are properly set too. Tony G. ""Tony G."" <tonygroff@NOSPAM.msn.com> wrote in message news:8k3qjh$r4h$1@toye.php.net... > Forgive me if this question has been asked, but I can't download the > entire 65,000 messages in this group =). >>>> RedHat Linux 5.0 2.2.9 > kernel. Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12 <<<< > > Can anyone enlighten me as to why: > > <?php system("wvdial"); ?> > > does not seem to execute, nor does it display any output? However > > <?php system("who"); ?> > > (or most other commands for that matter "ps aux", "ifconfig", or > whatever) WILL display output? > > Any advice would be much appreciated. I am simply building a web > control panel for my proxy/dial-up server for my LAN. And I'd much > rather use PHP tan continue using the CGI script that I had to write > for this purpose. > > Thank you! > > > > -- > 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 >