System() and a shell script

[damasta]

Trying to get a shell script to execute. Works fine from the console, not from php. Script is in the same directory as the page. Any ideas?

<?php

$test = system('sh stop_music.sh', $retval);
echo $test;
echo $retval;

?>

[kilbey1]

I was having some problems getting system to work. First, check if safe mode is enabled on wherever your PHP is hosted, and if there are specific executables listed within the safe_mode_exec_dir. You may have done this already.

If safe mode is not enabled and you still have problems (which I did), try shell_exec, or exec instead. system just didn't want to work for me, but I did get shell_exec to work.
shell_exec("unzip -P password $path/$zipfile -d $path");

And try using double qoutes instead of singles in that system command, though per all documentation, it looks as if it wouldn't make a difference.

Also, perhaps you can send the stderr out to a file to see what's going on?
system( $command . " &> /tmp/error " );

[damasta]

Ok, thanks, I'll give that a shot. I appreciate your help.