As a check, does 'apache2ctl graceful' actually output anything to STDOUT? I
would expect your exec commands to work - try with something like 'ls' or
'whoami' and see if you get any results that way.
Edward
> I have been trying to figure out how to use exec to run some commandline
> scripts (some perl scripts & mysql in this case) WITH the output
> of the commands
> run via exec being shown on the screen.
>
> neither of these examples have the desired effect:
>
> $output = array(); $exit = 0;
> exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit);
>
>
> $output = array(); $exit = 0;
> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit);
>
> please someone tell me there is a decent way to do this (something
> to do with STD input/output redirection or something?) and that
> I'm not left
> with trying something like:
>
> ob_start();
> $output = array(); $exit1 = $exit2 = 0;
> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit1);
> ob_end_clean();
>
> ... of which I don't even know if it would work.
>
> anyone care to share their clue?
>
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