Can't seem to get this script to run by PHP

colinexl

Hi guys, I wrote a script for the expect program in Tcl language that telnets into a host and retrieves some information, then ftps that info into a text file on my php server.

The problem is that I don't think PHP is able to exec() or system() the Expect script because it's in Tcl langauge. I've tried exec() other scripts written in Python and normal shell scripts. They all work fine! But PHP doesn't execute even the simplest Tcl scripts like "Hello World!". Is there a module that I have to install in order to get PHP to execute Expect scripts written in Tcl?

Thanks all!

bogu

Is this what u are looking for?

dbplus_tcl
DB++ Functions

colinexl

Thank you Bogu, that was very helpful actually. I'm sure it'll come in handy for me later. But as it turns out all i needed to do was

exec("expect blah.exp");

instead of

exec("blah.exp");

Now I have another problem, but I think it might be a permission access problem. The script that I run has to move a file from /tftpboot directory into my home directory. When I run the script in command line, it moves the file fine. However, when I run the same script using PHP, it doesn't move the file. The file is actually in /tftpboot directory but it doesnt get moved into my home. Is this because Apache doesn't have access to /tftpboot?

Thx!

bogu

If /tftpboot is not in your wwwroot (web root dir) then u dont have access to it ...