passthru command not working for me?

hi, i have a simple script for monitoring my sever.

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Status page</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=30>
<BODY>

<?php
$uptime = passthru ("w");
echo "<font face=\"Tahoma\" SIZE=\"1\">$uptime</font></p>";
?>

</BODY>
</HTML>

This does not output anything though?

im using php 4.2.2 by the way.

Read the documentation on passthru

Diego

No intensions of ruining diego's fun 🙂 but,

To capture the out put of passthru(), you can use an output buffer:

ob_start();
passthru(escapeshellcmd("$command"));
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

print $output;

I don't belive I saw a good example of this in the manual on the passthru() page.

...or use exec's second parameter...

Diego

you could try the system() function, you might not have them activated either i know my server has them off.

how do i know if they are off? and how do i turn them on? this is my server so....