[snip] I didn't sent off list, always to php.general in reply to whatever message thread I am in. In any event, I have tried safe mode = On and safe mode = Off with the 4 commands I listed in my last thread and my actual code is using an echo = "<textarea>$tailed</textarea>";
>><?php >>$tailed = shell_exec('tail -f /path/to/log'); >>//$tailed = exec('tail -f /path/to/log'); >>//$tailed = system('tail -f /path/to/log'); >>print = "<textarea>$tailed</textarea>"; >>?> [/snip] <?php $tailed = shell_exec('tail /path/to/log'); print = "<textarea>$tailed</textarea>"; ?> I can only think that it must be a permissions issue. What happens if you run the script from the command line? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php