Re: exec() sytem() problem with starting ext. prg

Have you checked is_readable() on the full pathname of the file? Perhaps one of the parent directories isn't accessible to the web server. miguel On Mon, 20 May 2002, Alexander Saupe wrote: > Hello php-general, > > on a LAMP server I have the following problem: > > 1. playing around I tried to execute the linux df (diskfree) command with > exec() or system() - no problem, works fine! > 2. trying to start an application did not work! > - the application which I am trying to start can be started by anyone, here > are the user rights: -rwxrwxrwx 1 10575 21129 1052648 M?r 13 16:31 > mldonkey > - the application is normally (from the console, no gui) started like this: > mldonkey > mldonkey.log & > - for testing I configured the Apache (in httpd.conf) as a user > - doing a little research (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php) I > tried this: > exec("php script.php parameters 2>dev/null >&- <&- > >/dev/null &"); > Where... > ...php is the path to your php script executer (php has to be specifically > complied to be to do this) > ...script.php is the script > ...parameters are none or more parameters > ...2>dev/null redirects the stderr to a file > ...<&- switches off the stdin > ...>&- switches off the stdout > ...>dev/null redirects all other output to the file dev/null > ...& direct script to run in background > - played a little with the parameters and... nothing happened! ;-( > > Help me please! > > Maybe anybody knows, if this has something to do with user rights (I think > not)? > What do I have to do, if I want to send e.g. 'kill PID' Linux command (no > success here either)? > > Thank's a lot, Alex > > > >