Re: Running a Shell Script in PHP HELP!

Executing the script could be good :) Try a system(); command. Alas, remember, PHP runs as whatever user apache does, so chances are it has no privledges to run any of these operations as it is www/nobody/apache/daemon/etc. You could sudo it in the system call. - k ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armando Cerna" <armando@thefoodlist.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 7:14 PM Subject: [PHP] Running a Shell Script in PHP HELP! > > I have a shell script that I am executing like this $files = shellscript; > but if I do an if ($files) it doesn't read $files as existing. The contents > of the shell script is a smbclient line that copies a bunch of DBF files from > another machine. Anyone have any idea? Below is a little snipit of my code > > $files = updatemp; > > > if ($files) { > print "$files<br>"; > print "I am god"; > > } else { > print "$files"; > print "It's ok you'll get it working. =)"; > } > > > > > > > The contents of the updatemp file is as follows > > smbclient //machine/c -I 192.168.0.4 -U armando%secret -D a1 -c 'lcd /tmp/dbf > ; prompt ; mget *.dbf ; quit' > > > Thanks in advance, > Armando > > -- > 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 >