Just guessing here. On our setup, PHP runs as nobody. Is there a permissions
problem around "someProgram"?
Kirk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] passthru
>
>
> On the server itself (to which I have root access) I type:
>
> someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3
>
> and it runs properly, returning the proper output to standard
> output (the
> screen). I can do this from anywhere on the server (for
> example, from the
> same directory where my php scripts are located,
> /var/www/html/blah), and I
> can do it as the same user that apache runs as ('apache').
>
> BUT, when I try:
>
> <?php passthru("someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3"); ?>
>
> it fails. I get no output at all. I can check that
> everything else is ok
> by doing something like
>
> <?php passthru("someProgram arg1 arg2 arg3"); passthru("echo
> 'finished'");
> ?>
>
> which then returns just the word 'finished' to the browser.
>
> I CAN do other things via passthru, for example,
>
> <?php passthru("man tar"); ?>, and
>
> <?php passthru("ls -al"); ?>
>
> and so on. I am running php as an apache module. I am NOT
> running php in
> 'safe mode'.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Dickson
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