Do you have exec enabled on your machine or host?

What errors are shown in the web server logs?

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Ashenafi Shifferaw <[email protected]>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I recently wrote a C program as follows;
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     system("notify-send -u normal -t 200 'You Have received a new
>> message'");
>>     system("cvlc /home/ashenafis/Music/BabyMessage.mp3");
>>     return 0;
>> }
>>
>
> Compiled it and saved the executable in "/usr/sbin/play".
>
> When I run it from the terminal it works fine, however it does not work
> when I try to run it from a PHP script using
>
> <?php exec("/usr/sbin/play"); ?>
>>
>
> Is there something I am missing? Please help.
>
> --
> Ashenafi S.
> http://ashenafis.webs.com
>
>
>
>
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