You should always use a full path to commands and file names in exec,
because you never know what $PATH shell value will be...
You may also be working under some kind of secure enviroment such as a
chroot shell thingie (about which I know almost nothing) or SE Linux (in
which case there should be some kinda file in /etc/ that has a name kinda
like 'selinux' that tells you what's going on) or...
Honestly, though, I'd suggest you make a concerted effort (sooner or
later) to change your scripts to use full paths, even if you get it to
work without them this time around.
On Sat, May 28, 2005 12:42 pm, Andy Pieters said:
> Hi all
>
> I have several scripts that stoped working. All those scripts have in
> common
> that they call shell commands.
>
> To find out what was going on, I did a little test
> cat << "?>" | php
> <?php
> echo "exec test\n";
> exec("dir",$output,$errs);
> ?>
> exec test
> sh: /usr/local/php/bin/dir: No such file or directory
>
> As you can see it is trying to call sh with a weird path. It should
> use /usr/bin/dir instead
>
> Also when I try it with 'type' (which is an internal command) it has the
> same
> result.
>
> I recently switched from FC3 to FC4 for my development. The PHP binary
> I'm
> using was compiled from sources with the following charasteristics:
>
>
> PHP Version => 4.3.10
>
> Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/bin'
> '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--with-mysql' '--with-config-file-path=/etc'
> '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-gd'
> '--enable-gd-native-ttf'
> '--with-ttf-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib'
> '--with-png-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--enable-ftp'
> '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-bcmath'
> '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ctype' '--enable-inline-optimization'
> '--with-bz2' '--with-iconv' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib' '--disable-cgi'
> '--with-cli'
> Server API => Command Line Interface
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> With kind regards
>
>
> Andy
>
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