php-general Digest 26 Aug 2013 03:41:12 -0000 Issue 8344

Topics (messages 321965 through 321965):

exec and system do not work
        321965 by: Ethan Rosenberg

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Dear List -

I'm lost on this one -

This works -

$out = system("ls -l ",$retvals);
printf("%s", $out);

This does -

echo exec("ls -l");

This does not -

if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
{
   $out = system("touch /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
   $out2 = system("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
   echo 'file2<br />';
   echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
}

and this does not -

if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
{
   exec("touch /var/www/orders.txt");
   exec("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt");
   echo 'file2<br />';
   echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
}

Ethan

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