Reading STDERR

[Anon]

Hello!
I am trying to execute a program from PHP that will add users to our Post.Office server. However, the program seems to return any error codes on STDERR. This causes a problem, in that i can't seem to figure out how to capture the errors!

I have tried many things, the two main ones being

exec("addacct $login > $login.results");
(results in a file with no contents)
and

$resultfp = fopen("php://stderr" ,"r");

$result = exec("addacct $login");

$contents = fread($resultfp, 2500);
print $contents;
(outputs nothing)

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!
Andy Rosen
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[Anon]

If you want to redir strerr, here you might try:

exec("addacct $login 2>$login.results");

The 2 tells it to redirect stderr ..

Otherwise, you might want to try exec("addacct $login 2>1", $results)

with $results being an array of lines returned by the executable. Hope that helps!

Chris King

[Anon]

Chris,

Worked like charm! Problem Solved! Thanks a lot!

Andy