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

What is a TTY (see below)? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Alexander Saupe" <a.saupe@epvtec.de> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] exec() sytem() problem with starting ext. prg > su - nobody (substitute your web server user id) > then try to run the command > > The other problem can be that the app requires a TTY. > > -Rasmus > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >