PHP :: System() And Exec()

Exec(), System()
I write very, very simple script who call external program. The script is run on Linux Slackware, Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.8b PHP/4.4.4 here is my script:

<?php
echo exec('ls');
?>
this work properly.

but if i write:

<?php
echo exec('xine'); //xine is a multimedia player
?>

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Bug In System And Exec Commands
If PHP is running via a web server, and mutiple system
calls are made within the script to another script,
hundreds of processes are created. Here is an example:

Script 1:
<?php
for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++) {
system("php script2.php");
}
?>

Script 2:
<?php
exit;
?>

The effect is the same (and more difficult to stop) when
the system calls are made in the background. e.g.

system("php script2.php >>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null &");
system("php script2.php >/dev/null 2>&1");

I have even tried calling a shell script, which in turn
calls the second PHP script (both in the background), but
it still causes lots of processes.

The "exec" command is also affected.

At first, I thought this was a problem with either Zeus web
server of Fast CGI, but I have since tried it with Apache
and normal CGI with the same effect.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens and whether there is any way to prevent it? I have posted a bug report to bugs.php.net (ID 14997), but so far to no avail.

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System() Or Exec() And Permissions
I'm trying to run a command (mogrify) that requires that I'm logged in as root, or at least I think this is the case. How can I do this?

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Exec() And System() Problems
I am trying to use php's exec() or system() to execute a shell script that I wrote.

exec and system() work fine with a simple command like ls, but nothing happens when I point it at the shell script.

The shell script works fine from my shell login. Can't figure out what tho problem is. Is php just incapable of running shell scripts?

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Using Passthru(), Exec(), System() Etc.
I have an executable that runs as expected from a command prompt but seems to do nothing when I try to run it from php, using passthru(), exec(), etc.

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System/shell/exec/etc
I've got PHP 5.1.6, Apache 2.2.2, on Fedora 5. Everything is great except that when I use an of the external launching commands, persistent apps dont stay open. I have a simple shell script set up to load an app, and I have it write a PID file. Immediately after calling exec (milliseconds later) the PID is alive. However, within a few more milliseconds it seems to close.

I've made sure that the apache uid/gid have full access to the script and the apps it calls. When sudo'ing manualy in a shell with the apache uid, the script works flawlessly and loads the program, and stays open, as it should. I've verified that the app loads under the uid 'apache' with ps. When running it through PHP, it seems to close almost immediately after succeeding.

Is there some fundamental issue with how this works that I'm missing? I can't seem to get any real errors out of php, apache, or even the shell when redirected to a file. Should I try PHP4? Is PHP5 buggy with this kind of thing? I even tried running 'at' to schedule the script (so that it'd be invoked by at instead of the shell itself) but that failed, silently, as well.

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Exec(), System() And Win 2003
I have searched high and low for the past 2 days for an answer to my problem. I have found a few references, but nothing has helped me. My problem is this: I am trying to ping a remote server from a PHP script in IE 6.0. When I load the page, the cmd.exe loads on the server and takes up all my CPU. I have to manually stop the process for it to go away.

My setup is this:
Windows 2003 Server
PHP 5.0.1

I have tried
- giving my system32cmd.exe full IUSR_%machinename% rights
- moved the cmd.exe to the script folder, to the PHP folder

And about a million other things that I can't remember =(. I have tried multiple functions, written in mulitple ways and the outcome is always the same. when the cmd.exe is opened it hangs on the 2003 server.

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Use Exec() In PHP 5.2 On A Windows XP Pro System
I'm trying to use exec() in PHP 5.2 on a Windows XP Pro system. What I'm trying to do is use it to tell an already running program what to.

For example:
X:pathprogram.exe /something
or
X:pathprogram.exe /something_else

If I do the command through the command line, it works, but so far I have been unsuccessful in PHP. Usually it PHP just hangs, and give no error message, and does nothing to the program.

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Problem Using System/exec Function.
I am faced with strange problem. Basically I want to make a script which would take mysql back up for me. I have come up with following. [ basically code is borrowed from some other place ]
PHP Code:

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Using System/exec, How To Backup Database?
system("mysqldump --opt myDatabase > backup.sql");

here are my problems,

i don't think it works on the webserver. next, where exactly the file, backup.sql be place if it does succeed.

i believe we just can't execute commands on the webserver can we?

i also tried using the sql query BACKUP TABLE ... TO .. but i'm guessing the problem lies with the TO... how do i know what directory shall i place it therE?

for instance, my pages are placed in,

home/myname/public_html/...

i tried to put
home/myname/public_html/backup in the TO but nothing happens.

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Exec(), System(), Shell_exec(), Etc + Nmap
i'm trying to create a script that executes nmap from my server, then displays the output.

i've tried:

$output = passthru('nmap -v -A'.' $ip');
$output = shell_exec('nmap -v -A'.' $ip');
system('nmap -v -A'.' $ip');

the problem i'm having is that using the above methods i only get the first line of output, ie.

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-08-31 21:46 CST

and nothing else. i've managed to find a way around it by sending the nmap output to a textfile, the using file_get_contents() to pull the data back in:

exec('nmap -v -A '.$ip.' > /usr/local/www/apache22/data/nmap/'.$ip.'.html');
$file = "/usr/local/www/apache22/data/nmap/$ip.html";
$result = file_get_contents($file);
echo "(pre)$result(/pre)";

that works perfectly, but i'd rather not be writing anything to the drive. i guess the problem might be that nmap takes about 5-10 seconds to do its scan, and for some reason php doesn't want to wait that long, i really have no idea. can it be made to work without needing to write to files?

and for the curious minds, i'm not doing anything dodgy, i just wanted an online tool i could access from any computer to test networks i support .

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System/exec Not Working In Browser
In two files, and I serve foo.php then I notice If I use commandline execution i.e. php foo.php then foo.txt is touched/created all right. i.e. system command is executed as expectedBut If I use browser then I notice that the shell command in config.php is *not* executedAny ideas as to why this might be happening? Code:

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Command Window - Exec/system
I'm in the process of developing a script in Windows where I need to use exec/system. Whenever I execute either, Windows spawns a command window which automatically sappears. Is there a clean way to force Windows to NOT display the command window?

I've seen this discussed a few times previously, but, none of the
solutions seem to be working (tried both exec and system; tried using
cmd /c, tried using start /B, etc.)

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Exec, Shell_exec, System, And Passthru Not Working At All
Can't get these commands to work! The following page simply doesn't
finish loading ( Waiting... Opening... :-( )

<?php echo system("dir"); ?>

The same for <?php echo exec("dir"); ?> or <?php echo
shell_exec("dir"); ?>, etc...

I'm running Apache 2.0.55 & PHP 5.0.5 with Zend Optimizer v2.5.10 on
windows XP SP2.

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Exec And System Commands Blocked By Host
I've got this code, its the simpliest example I could make. It works perfectly on my windows xp/apache/php box, but doesn't do anything on a commercial website host. The actual code should use gzip to compress a folder but that doesn't work either.

Anyone know the reason why they would be blocking these commands? I suspect the problems with commonly used php apps like phpBB to be the real reason.

<?
exec("ping 127.0.0.1 > test.txt") or die();
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "test.txt";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));

fclose ($fd);

echo $contents;

?>

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Alternates To System() And Exec() In Order To Use ImageMagik?
My Web host apepars to not allow exec() and system(), as a line in my script:

system("convert -scale 100x100 $uploadfile $toimage");

gives the error:

"Warning: system() has been disabled for security reasons"

Is there some other way to use ImageMagik (or is it GhostScript?)'s
"convert" command in PHP that may be safer and generally allowed by Web
hosts?

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Exec - Create An Executable That Return The System Drives
I need some help about exec command. I have create an executable that return the System Drives. It is based on DOS and does not need any parameter.

I have create my php script that executes the executable i've create and the source code is the following: ...

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Running An .exe File Using Exec() Or System(), Unable To Fork Error
I have a problem with running an .exe file using exec() or system() I have downloaded a file called ffmpeg.exe for converting movie clips. I can use the program thourg the command line in windows (cmd), but I'm not able to have PHP run the file. First PHP gave be an "unable to fork" error. But then I gave users access to the cmd.exe file and solved that problem. So now is no problem running for example exec("dir");

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System(), Exec(), Shell_exec(), But "Permission Denied"
I want to execute the php script via web server to run linux command. I try to use system(), exec(), shell_exec(), but the system show me "Permission Denied". i have set the file permission by using chmod 777 file.php .

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Warning: Ftp_exec() [function.ftp-exec]: SITE EXEC Is An Unknown Extension
This is kind of a part II to a question a posted earlier about exec and shell_exec not working.

I'm trying to use ftp_exec to execute some simple command:

$conn_id = ftp_connect("$server") or die ("Cannot initiate connection to host");
ftp_login($conn_id, "$username", "$userpass") or die("Cannot login");
$command = 'cd..'
if (ftp_exec($conn_id, $command)) {
echo "$command executed successfully";
} else {
echo "could not execute $command";
}
ftp_close($conn_id);

I'm getting the following error:

Warning: ftp_exec() [function.ftp-exec]: SITE EXEC is an unknown extension in /home/urieilam/public_html/work/video/test1.1.php on line 21
could not execute cd..

Have tried other commands as well, get the same. Could this be a security issue or something to do with p Safe Mode? I don't know much about commands, shell, etc..

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Warning: Exec() [function.exec]:
I'm using PHP Version 5.0.4 in IIS5, Window 2003. When I execute my script, it prompt me the following error :

Warning: exec() [function.exec]: Unable to fork [ping 10.8.1.70] in c:Inetpubwwwrootswitch.php on line 62
Below is my script :

<?php
$line1 = exec("ping 10.8.1.70", $output);
exit;
?>

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System(); Command Not Working On Remote System. Windows.
My server is a windows machine, on the same domain as python(also a windows machine). Apache is running as a service as an administrator. This is a test only environment to whom it may concern(I hate people telling me how insecure my system is) I'm just trying to run:

$last_line = exec('dir pythonc$', $retval, $g);
print_r($retval);
echo ' '.$g.' ';
echo '$last_line= '.$last_line.' ';
Which outputs:

Array ( )
1
$last_line=

The command from the command line works fine. And apache can access directories that only administrators can access on the local machine.

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Make A News System With A Template System
i'm a total,and mean total newbie in PHP. I want to make a news system with a template system(like footer.php and header.php) but dont know how to?

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Login System - News System
i have to do a news system wich use php/mysql.

i need 3 accounts:

* a 'reader' who doesn't need to log in to read the news
* a 'writer' who can write news in a pending news table
* a 'moderator' which validate a pending news, and make it a regular news,
viewable from the site (by the 'reader')

This is a small web site, so i can't use SSL; and i use php sessions.

Right now, i deal with account from a mysql users point of view, which
means, that a 'reader' can access all the admin part of the site, but will
ger errors when trying to read/write by sql query.

I was wondering if somedody could give me a trick to deny access to the
admin pages. Rigth now, i though about these:

* by decoding mydql rights? (how)
* by doing only-to-test query? (bad i think, especially for write right)

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Need Help With Exec()
On Redhat linux, the command "passwd user" is interactive, so how can I pass data to and from the command with system() or exec()?

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Exec();
well i know that exec("ndc reload"); would perform that command.. but i want too print out on the page what the command tells when i do like this:
[root@xermin cryzeck]# ndc reload
Reload initiated.
[root@xermin cryzeck]#

i want to print that Reload initiated. on the page.. how? not just echo("reload initiated"); but the stuff the command tells.

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Using Exec()
I'm trying to use the exec() function to call shell scripts that in turn startup various programs under linux.. for example, when someone clicks on a link to restart a particular daemon, the daemon will then simply executed, either through the standalone command of /location/daemon or through the calling of a shell script that essentially performs an identical task.

My problem is that exec() seems to only work through the user "nobody," which the Apache web server is running under. The scripts and programs I'd like to execute are under a user account named "admin."

I've even tried chmod'ing all pertinent files w/ permissions that "nobody" could use to successfully access all necessary commands, without success, as the programs seem to crash whenever I do this.

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PHP And Exec(dir)
I have been using opendir and scandir, but I want to try something
else.
Idea: using dir, and a) getting the result b) saving it as a file.

As I have problems with executing files directly, it create a bat file
and executes that.
I can execute command, but by some reason I dont get any response (it
should return something, and I get "")
The missing response is why I create a file.

I create the file on the network ( serversomewhere ) like this

dir "serversomewherefilesdir" >"serversomewhere
esult.txt"

Here is the odd thing: dir cannot read from the network - the bat file
is created there, it creates the result.txt file, but emtpy as it
cannot read from the network. Reading from c: and it works.

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Php Exec();
i've been trying to create a php script that writes some text to a
file, then runs the perl interpreter on the file and shows the output.
it works ok when valid perl is written to the file, so if i use 'print
"hello world";' then it outputs 'hello world'. the problem is, if i
enter invalid perl code, such as 'blahblahblah;', it outputs nothing.
i'd like the php script to be able to get the error/output. does anyone
know of a way to do this?

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Exec(); & Php As CGI...
I have had to do some work on a RAQ server with php as cgi. The script I have written uses the exec(); function to run pgp to encrypt a file. Weird thing is this:

The script does everything it's supposed to but I get the RAQ internal server error message. Should I be using passthru of something else in this environment? Forgive me I am a relative virgin as far as RAQs and php as cgi goes.

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Exec Php
I have a php site. Some page needs to call an external program. The programs are home made c# applications. It uses to work without problem. For a while. Maybe it work for some hour. Or for a day. Or even for a week.

At a certain point, when a php script calls the exe file, the application freezes. The following happens:...

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Exec()
I am making a simple php script using exec() to execute commands in my linux host. When i execute 'ls' it shows the right content on that directory, but what i want to know if there is a way i can distinguish between folders and files. In this way i can lets say make folders show in black and files in grey. Also when i execute a wrong command i wanna get any system error message. Code:

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Exec A .exe
I want to exec dos then within dos exec another.exe
then write to that program with database varables or session's but how?

how do you write to the last.exe program to give it it's command?

<?php
exec("C:/WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe/program.exe");
?>

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Use Of The Exec()
<?php
f($_POST['startup']){
if(!$online){
//$A1Â =Â array();
//exec($servpath."khyller-server.exe")Â orÂ die(" ServerÂ StartupÂ MSGÂ -Â <FontÂ color=red>CannotÂ findÂ Server");
//proc_open("callÂ C:Serverlanked
eleasekhyller-server.exe",Â $A1,$A2,$A3);
}
}
?>

I'm first trying to get them to work at all just do something first. but with no success. I even sued or die and all I get is die D: Is it impossible or am I just dumb? I know I did this one, But I don't know how. Edit to add php color. my eyes were hurting in blackness.

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Using EXEC
I've got a page on an application form that runs an executable. I don't return anything from the executable, and I don't want to the script to wait for it before continuing. I just want it to call the executable and forget about it. The executable is self contained, in doesn't return anything back to the script.

I'm currently executing with EXEC like so:

Code:
exec("c:filename.exe " . $_SESSION['memberId']);

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Exec() And Zip
I have zip.exe in my PATH on a windows XP box. Additionally, I have a script which, if I execute locally with php myfile.php. it runs fine. However, when I call myfile.php remotely with a web browser, it canot seem to find zip.exe. Below are the releveant code snippets.

exec( "zip -mj ackups empcookbook.zip ackups empcookbook.sql 2>&1",
$output, $res );
if( $res 0 ) {
error( true,"COMPRESSION FAILED
".implode( "
", $output));

COMPRESSION FAILED
The system cannot execute the specified program.

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SU And Exec
I have a PHP CLI script setup in crom which runs as a specific user each night so that it has the correct security level. I want to also be able to execute this script "on demand" via a webpage. Is there a simple way to get PHP to execute this command as another user? How could I "SU script_user >>> runme.php" ?

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About Exec()
I have a small custom 404 page in PHP. When this page is triggered I'd
like some information about the requesting client, including its reverse
IP.

I would like the 404 page to be returned to the client's browser
immediately, after invoking another function or script that takes care
of the lookup & email duties. The 404 page doesn't care about the return
value of the second script at all, it's fine if it fails. It looked to
me like exec() is appropriate here, is that correct? Am I thinking about
it wrong?

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Exec ()
i want to add new Linux user in my system:

exec ("useradd ........");

is not working . there is no error . but user is not getting added. Am i using the command in wrong way. is ther any alternative.

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After Executing System(), How Can I Pass "Y" To System By Php?
I want to use the system command to set user's priority

$cmd = "cacls d:appservwwwaccountMng$userName /G $userName:F";
system($cmd);

Then it appears
Are you sure (Y/N)?

How can I pass the "Y" to system by php?

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Exec() Fails...help!
I'm very new to php, running apache 1.3.20 with php 4 on a 98 box just for home test development purposes

there's probably an easier way/better alternative to do what i'm trying to do, but i'd be greatful for solutions not alternatives

i'm trying to add a user to an .htpasswd file so need to exec("c:/apache/htdocs/htpasswd.exe -b .htpasswd user password)
It would also be useful to run a mail server remotely with exec("c:mymailserver.exe") but neither will work, i tend to hear the standard windows error sound, but with no message. Apache error logs reveal nothing. What i'm trying to do may be impossible?, i'm new to the language so i don't know...or it may be a permissions problem? Or perhaps something totally seperate?

If anyone has any ideas which may help i'd be very greatful for any advice you could give.

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Exec & IIS Problem
I have an exe that I want to run with php. In the console, it works
perfectly fine.

There is a problem with security and it doesn't seem to run. I have
tried the following after reading various newsgroups and websites and
no luck.

1) Put the Exe file in the wwwroot and set permissions to the IUSER,
giving Read&Execute, even gave Full Control.
2) I also added Everyone too and still no luck
3) Moved the exe file to system32 folder and did the same above and
still no luck

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Exec Is Not Working Right
I'm trying to convert a video with exec i have just installed php 5.0.5 on my server and every thing seems to work except exec can you help
i have tried

<?
runExternal( "ffmpeg -i video.mov -s 320x240 -r 30 video.flv", &$code );
if( $code ) echo "bad transcoding";
else echo "looks good";

function runExternal( $cmd, &$code ) {

$descriptorspec = array(
0 => array("pipe", "r"), // stdin is a pipe that the child will read from
1 => array("pipe", "w"), // stdout is a pipe that the child will write to
2 => array("pipe", "w") // stderr is a file to write to
);

$pipes= array();
$process = proc_open($cmd, $descriptorspec, $pipes);

$output= "";

if (!is_resource($process)) return false;

#close child's input imidiately
fclose($pipes[0]);

stream_set_blocking($pipes,false);
stream_set_blocking($pipes[2],false);

$todo= array($pipes[1],$pipes[2]);

while( true ) {
$read= array();
if(!feof($pipes[1]) ) $read[]= $pipes[1];
if(!feof($pipes[2]) ) $read[]= $pipes[2];

if (!$read) break;

$ready= stream_select($read, $write=NULL, $ex= NULL, 2);

if ($ready === false) {
break; #should never happen - something died
}

foreach ($read as $r) {
$s= fread($r,1024);
$output.= $s;
}
}

fclose($pipes[1]);
fclose($pipes[2]);

$code= proc_close($process);

return $output;
}
?>
and
<?
exec("ffmpeg -i video.mov -s 320x240 -r 30 video.flv");
?>
and
<?
system("ffmpeg -i video.mov -s 320x240 -r 30 video.flv");
?>

None worked ....

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PHP Locking Up With EXEC?
I have been using EXEC and or SHELL_EXEC to call several command line functions. I use it mostly for Image Magick on my web servers.

I run a WinXP machine with Sambar Server 5.3, PHP verison 4.3.0 ISAPI.

Until lately the server, php and image magick have functioned like a dream. I have been lately having some very serious crashes where the DOS window that appears then disappears with a command call from PHP does not leave the screen, it simply freezes. The web server continues to function but any addiional EXEC (or realted) commands do not process, the DOS window remains on the screen.

I run my server as a service and not an applicaiton though I experimented both ways. I have not changed my config lately other than to add maybe another dozen domains to my server's vhosts.ini file. Other than that, nothing has changed.

The ONLY way to terminate the problem is to KILL THE PROCESS for the server (for sambar folks that is ntserver.exe) then restart the service. One should not ever need to do this but this is the only way to get the bubble out of the way, so to speak. The service itself will not stop, it must have the process killed. Does this sound strange.

Is there a bug with PHP ... maybe it is there but it just seems so odd that it is intermitant, most times the EXEC goes of with out a hitch, but with significantly increased frequency it freezes up. Now I went into the list of processes to see if it was tying up system resoureces, it does NOT.

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Exec() On Windows
this is my problem: I need to "exec" the following command:

C:ProgrammiSoftsoft.exe -v -d C:dati$nomefile
C:datipdf$filename

and i tried to execute it in php with (one of) the following lines....

exec("C:ProgrammiSoftsoft.exe -v -d C:dati.$nomefile
C:datipdf.$filename");
exec("C:ProgrammiSoftsoft.exe" -v -d "C:dati".$nomefile
"C:datipdf".$filename);
exec("C:ProgrammiSoftsoft.exe -v -d C:dati.$nomefile
C:datipdf.$filename");
exec("C:/Programmi/Soft/soft.exe -v -d C:/dati/.$nomefile
C:/dati/pdf/.$filename");
exec("C:/Programmi/Soft/soft.exe" -v -d "C:/dati/".$nomefile
"C:/dati/pdf/".$filename);

but there is something wrong and that i.. do not understand...
Is there anyone so kind to show me the correct line and a couple of
comments on how to built it? I tried to search for it (manual,
newsgroups...) but i haven't found it (and my mistakes are the result
:-P)

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Exec And $_GET
If I execute a php script with exec
exec("foo.php"); and foo.php reads the $_GET array (can't change that I must
work with $_GET), how can I set values to $_GET array?
Can I do it directly in foo.php?

$_GET['foobar'] = 4;

Or exec(foo.php?foobar=4); ?

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Exec() On One Vhost?
Is there a way to enable exec() for one virtual host on a server?
Safe_mode is on globally (and off for the one domain), and exec() (and
other fns) are disabled globally. However, I cannot use exec() from the
domain of interest.

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Exec Or Shell_exec
I am trying to us shell_exec and keep getting an error. I do have safe_mode = off also.
Code:

if ($publish == "yes")
{
$command = "e:scriptspublish.bat";
$result=shell_exec($command); }

The publish.bat file does work and I have proper permissions set in windows, I set everyone full access. Oh, Windows server, IIS6.0, PHP. Error is as follows:

Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'e:scriptspublish.bat' in

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How To Get Errors From Exec?
I am running PHP 4 and this code is failing, in that it does not
insert the records into MySQL

// Upload the data to file to the db.
exec("mysqlimport --replace --fields-terminated-by=','
--fields-optionally-enclosed-by='"' --user=$db_user
--password=$db_password --host=$db_hostname
--lines-terminated-by='
' $db_name $new_src_file_path", $output,
$return);

Sadly, the $output array is empty, but the $return value is 127. Does
anyone know what that means or how I can get more meaningful error
output?

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GPG With Popen Instead Of Exec
I am the Team lead for the GPG plugin for Squirrelmail.

http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=153

We use exec for all of our gpg program executions, but this requires doing "echo $plaintext | gpg $commandflags"

This works fine, but means that some plaintext is passed on the command line, and could be visible to an attacker monitoring process execution on the machine the web/php server is running on.

It would be more secure to use pipes. gpg supports the '--command-fd (pipe)' and '--status-fd (pipe)' command flags to take commands and report status from a pipe, but I can't figure out how to use php to pass the correct pipe descriptors to the command line. On the command line, the pipes 0,1, and 2 correspond to stdin, stdout, and stderr, respectively.

In theory, we should be able to use popen to open one read and one write pipe, and then pass the write pipe to --command-fd and the read pipe to --status-fd. Because Squirrelmail is used on servers of all different environments, I can't assume that the w+ flag will work with popen. I also can't require PHP 4.3.0 or higher, which would allow us to use proc_open.

Really, I want to avoid passing any plaintext on the command line, or writing anything to temp files, both of which introduce security risks.

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Exec PHP Within SHTML - SSI (on IIS)
I have done lot of searching / trying to see if PHP can be executed within SHTML (SSI) on IIS6. I have CGI script and PHP script which needs to be executed on my site within SHTML. I have no problem with running CGI code (using #exec cgi) ... however, there appears to be NO equivalent as in "#exec PHP".

Whole site is in SHTML --- so converting it into PHP is a bit pain. Addtionally, on IIS platforms running CGI code within PHP (which requires Apache specific commands) do not seem to work well in my tests.So,

1> I could convert the whole site into PHP -- if someone has successufully parsed CGI within PHP on Windows 2003 IIS 6 platform.

2> OR somehow (I hope) that someone is running PHP within SHTML at this time .

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