EXEC() Problems

[jawa]

I'm trying to pass a DOS command to delete the entire contents of a directory. Here is the code:

function ExecCommand($command) {
	$doit = exec($command, $output, $retcode) or die("$command was unsuccessful!");
}

I'm getting this output:

del /Q \\homie\cdrive\Lotus21\polled\01\ was unsuccessful!

The problem is this: It's working fine! When I go look at my actual directory, there's nothing in it. The delete command works, but PHP isn't recognizing that it worked. Any known reason for this?

Thanks,
-J

[dalecosp]

Don't use [man]die/man. Most operating system calls return zero if successful, some other integer value if not. PHP considers a zero as FALSE, so the die() is executed. For debugging, print out the retcode variable, and see if it ain't so. Then adjust your code accordingly ...

HTH,