Using system on NT

pmullins

Hello. Could someone tell me why the following code give me an error?

system('c:\progra~1\networ~1\pgpnt\pgp -e -a $plaintxt 0x360EC537');

Whenever I try to run this I get the following error:

Warning: Unable to fork [c:\progra~1\networ~1\pgpnt\pgp -e -a $plainTxt
0x360EC537] in D:\webpages\php\do_sendsecret.php on line 16

Help!

Thanks (from a PHP newbie)

Patrick H. Mullins

ame12

Did you try using exec instead of system, haven't looked at the php source code but since NT doesn't support forking... I think exec uses a win32 createprocess call instead. That should hopefully fire up pgp for you.

Dave

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pmullins

Hello. Yeah, I did try exec too. Same results. I've gone through the PHP manual and can't seem to find a thing about this.

I'm trying to switch over from ColdFusion (which let me do this) but I'm finding it hard to do so.

I've read comments from other people who are running the same server and OS and don't have any problem using exec or system.

I'm running PHP under Windows 2000 SP1 with
IIS 5.0. and MySQL.

pmullins

Ok, I found out that this is an issue with IIS 5.0. I know that much because I just installed Apache and tried the same script and it worked.

So, does anyone know what in IIS would be screwing up exec and system in PHP?