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[nycphp-talk] shell exec

Michael Novak thenov at gmail.com
Thu May 24 10:44:55 EDT 2007


It could be permissions even though I can run other commands through
the same script?

On 5/24/07, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Michael Novak wrote:
>
> >       I am trying to run a foundation tool on os x through the shell
> > exec script.  It is not working though. I have successfully run other
> > command line functions and it worked. I then copy and pasted the
> > command call in the php script into the terminal thinking there could
> > be a typo but it worked in the terminal.
> >
> > Is there something I am missing?
>
> You may recall, that PHP scripts run under the same username as the user
> running the Apache server. So, any scripts you run from a PHP script will
> run as that user and not as you.
>
> Therefore it could be permissions or some other issue that does not allow
> the script to run. You could look through your web server error logs and
> see if any messages are logged there.
>
>
>
> --
> Aj.
>
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