ID: 12300 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Program Execution Operating System: WinXP PHP Version: 4.3 New Comment:
Not PHP bug. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-07 09:24:41] [EMAIL PROTECTED] finally got it to work! i couldn't make PHP use cmd.exe in the system32 directory since its not allowed to read from that directory. however, i copied cmd.exe into the script's directory and it worked. putting cmd.exe in php.exe's directory also worked. and i dont need to specify the command as "cmd.exe /c test.bat". using just "test.bat" works just fine. so i guess the whole issue is having cmd.exe readable to php.exe and the simplest way to do that is placing cmd.exe in php.exe's directory. making system32 readable to PHP wouldn't very secure, since you would have to make it readable to all webserver processes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-06 20:00:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try this: <?php $cmd="c:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe /c test.bat"; echo "Executing command: [$cmd]\n"; system($cmd,$value); echo "Return value is: $value\n"; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-05 06:08:28] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this bug duplicates this one: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-26 04:12:49] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I have the same problem. For previous 24 hours I am trying to execute any program using exec, shell_exec, passthru... and Unable to fork or unable to execute. I have set up both IIS 5.1 and php.ini as unsecure as possible (temporary ;-) and no success. But I was successful on MS Windows ME, Apache 1.3.? and PHP 4.1.? for more than one year. So I am not sure, if it is not IIS configuration problem or problem with new directive in php.ini - cgi.something. I am running PHP 4.2.3 as a module. Stepan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-21 09:02:56] [EMAIL PROTECTED] one year later :) i've switched to a WinXP system. from the people who have posted successful runs of system() and exec() on w2k and xp i thought it would work. however, it DOESN'T. i downloaded the latest dev version and tried that. and it still doesn't happen. it works fine in the command prompt (with php.exe and php-cgi.exe). but in the browser (which uses php-cgi.exe) it gives the following: Warning: system() [function.system]: Unable to fork [D:\Website\projects\testbed\test.bat] in D:\Website\projects\testbed\test.phpdev on line 6 so it doesn't hang the browser anymore but maybe that's because of xp's shoot to kill policy. i tried fiddiling with the permissions to see if its the cause. but even with the most liberal permissions it gives the same result. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/12300 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12300&edit=1
