On Aug 25, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> 
wrote:

> Dear List -
> 
> I'm lost on this one -
> 
> This works -
> 
> $out = system("ls -l ",$retvals);
> printf("%s", $out);
> 
> This does -
> 
> echo exec("ls -l");
> 
> This does not -
> 
> if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
> {
>   $out = system("touch /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
>   $out2 = system("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
>   echo 'file2<br />';
>   echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
> }
> 
> and this does not -
> 
> if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
> {
>   exec("touch /var/www/orders.txt");
>   exec("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt");
>   echo 'file2<br />';
>   echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
> }
> 
> Ethan
> 
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When you say "does not work", can you show what is actually not working? I 
believe the exec and system functions are likely working just fine, but that 
the commands you've passed to them may not be.



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