I just found out that I was having SELinux enabled, which was causing
the trouble. Once disabled, I can run PHP in safemode and use exec. I
know its not the safest thing to do, but until I learn a bit more
about SELinux, this is the way to go :)
Z.
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:48:20 +0000, Zia Syed <zia.chacho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for ur reply. I'm running httpd with php on my linux box. I
> dont know how to enable the exec in php.ini. Tried safe mode but no
> use. I get the following output from the command
>
> [root@melville html]# php -r 'system("whoami");'
> Error in argument 1, char 2: option not found r
>
> however, with who.php, it works
>
> [root@melville html]# php who.php
> Content-type: text/html
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
>
> root
>
> :( I'm still stuck with it.
>
> Z.
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:13:37 -0600, Greg Donald <destiney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:09:51 +0000, Zia Syed <zia.chacho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I've been trying to execute some system commands and print back the
> > > output on the webpage. I found the following code to do so, however,
> > > it is not working.
> > > <?php
> > > echo exec('whoami');
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > However, i tried to switch on the Safe_Mode but that wasn't any good either.
> > > Any idea how can i get it work?
> >
> > I assume you're hosting with someone and they have dsiabled that
> > function via the php.ini, I dunno.. Anyway, you might get lucky and
> > they are using a different php.ini for the php binary. Try this from
> > command line:
> >
> > php -r 'system( "whoami" );'
> >
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> > http://destiney.com/
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