I dunno what 127 actually means, but the last time we saw it on this list, it boiled down to: "You can't even run your 'sh' shell, much less Perl in that shell." Check what's in /bin/sh and what its permissions are. Make sure it's actually a valid shell binary, and not something bogus. If that's not it, keep digging. Somewhere, somehow, you've got something in permissions that is not allowing you to run a process/binary you need. If it's not /bin/sh, look at Perl. If it's not Perl, check your permissions on test.cgi again. Remember that PHP does not run as "you" with all your permissions - If you can 'su' to the user PHP runs as, this could get a lot easier to test... Check httpd.conf "User" directive to be certain you know what user PHP runs as, or check <?php phpinfo()?> output. On Thu, June 16, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Herold said: > I'm sorry, when I do the exec() */properly/ *I get > > OS Error: 127 > Content-type: text/html > > Source ID: > > Richard Lynch wrote: > >>On Wed, June 15, 2005 5:36 pm, Chris Herold said: >> >> >>>I have been told that in order to pass variables via passthru() to >>>another script (in my case, a perl script) one can do the following ... >>> >>>passthru("home/test.cgi $var") >>> >>>and that $var will then be passed through to the cgi. >>> >>>I have tried this and failed. >>> >>>Is this the proper format or is there something that I am missing. >>> >>> >> >>You may want to use exec first, so you can more easily capture the error >>output and error codes. >> >>exec("home/test.cgi $var", $output, $error); >>if ($error){ >> //You should probably use error_log here in your real code... >> //ASSUME this is going to break some day, for whatever reason. >> //You'll need it logged unless you like dealing with error reports >> like: >> //"Hey, the website broke yesterday." >> echo "OS Error: $error<br />\n"; >> echo implode("<br />", $output); >> exit; >>} >>echo $output; >> >>Meanwhile, odds are *REALLY* good that you're not even calling the >>test.cgi script because you haven't provide a path that PHP can use. >> >>home/test.cgi would be assuming that home was in the same directory as >>your PHP script, and even that is kinda iffy depending on where you do >>this from the webserver or CLI... >> >>I would recommend using FULL PATH to *everything* in exec (and passthru) >> >>/full/path/to/home/test.cgi /full/path/to/any/args.txt >> >>Also be sure to use the escapeshellargs function to make your $var data >>kosher if it comes from the outside world. >> >> >> > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php