running system command

[jonno946]

Hi There,

I'm using shell_exec to run a system command which should generate a file that i want to read, however the file isnt generated.

I have safemode disabled and if i echo out the command and paste it into SSH the command executes fine.

I have checked out the error log and there are no errors.

This is an example of the command i'm running:

echo 'passphrase' | /home/website/gnupg-1.4.2/g10/gpg -u JON --passphrase-fd 0 --clearsign --force-v3-sigs -o /home/website/temp_dir/8edef434308edfa0fd804cfd6d139512.asc /home/website/temp_dir/8edef434308edfa0fd804cfd6d139512.txt

I've tried executing this with system(), shell_exec() and popen() to no avail.

Is there anything i've missed? A php.ini setting that could be incorrect?

This thing has been annoying me for hours now 🙁

Cheers.

[justsomeone]

very possibly a permissions problem. Just because you can roon the command, doesn't mean that the process running your PHP program can.

Try creating a small php script which just contains the line above.

Now try running the script from the commandline -> php yourfile.php

Does that create the file ok? If so, it's not a PHP problem.

check the permissions on /home/website/temp_dir/ who can create a file there?