help with system()

[jstrybis]

hi,

i've searched the forums, but only found one thread with no answers really..

i'm running PHP4 on a Windows 2000 server, and i can't seem to use the system(); command correctly.

I keep getting this error:
Warning: Unable to fork [command] in page on line line

i suppose if i turned warnings off, it may be successful, but what exactly is the problem here?

reason being: i am trying to use psservice to remotely start/stop a service, but i can't seem to get the command to work.

syntax is something like:
psservice \ipaddress -u username -p password query SERVICENAME

anyways, when i turn off warnings the script executes, but not correctly.. maybe due to this "forking" problem?

I also had to change the command to \\ipaddress to get it to work...

Note: this works in perl, but for some reason php doesn't like it...

I suppose i just really need to know how to fix this forking problem... (maybe in the .ini) or whether i should just give up and use perl.. =\

anyways, thanks for the help.
jay

[firepages]

Hi try using popen , you cant get anything back from it but it will run your file...

$pp=popen("c:\path\to\psservice ipaddress -u username -p password query",'r');pclose($pp);

[jstrybis]

i'll check that out 🙂

it's odd though, because i can run the file, but psservice gives me an error - probably something wrong with the username/password and i'm not sure why... would php maybe be parsing a - or a space wrong?