True. Somehow slipped my mind, now it works perfectly. PHP is awesome for system scripting.
"David Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Hamlet wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I've got a problem that's just a tidbit annoying. I've got a neat little php > > script to keep my home network running. At one point in this script it's > > required to reboot the machine the script is running on, and this I'm trying > > to do with exec("reboot"). > > > > Now, I run the cron job as root, and if I try "php <? exec("reboot"); ?> > > from console it works fine. But not when cron tries to. I've got my > > suspicions as to cron doing something kinky with the permissions, and > > therefore permissions are not enought for php to execute the reboot command. > > > > I've been at this all day, suggestions are more than welcome. > > It's not certain that the "reboot" command is in your PATH environment > variable when cron is running. Try adding a line similar to the one below > in the beginning of your cron script, or specify the full path when you > use exec() in PHP. > > PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" > > Regards, > > -\- David Eriksson -/- > > "I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology." > - Linus Torvalds > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
