In Running on CentOS5 + DirectAdmin. I own a VPS, but for security reasons I just want to give all managenent only to 'reseller' user. With a resseler user I have script, which connects to ressellers DA and creates an user. My problem is - how to copy a directory tree with ~10000 of files, which is located in 'resellers user' ftp, ex....
Hi guys, I need to run Shell_exec to import a dump into my MYSQL database. Today I do this: $shellExec = 'C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin\mysql -h localhost -u root mertero_decicare < D:\localhost\sql\decisions.sql'; $out = shell_exec($shellExec .' 2> output'); Which works. But is there a way to 'find' the location of the mysql ex...
I'm currently building a class in PHP that generates PDF documents using the WKHTMLTOPDF command line app. To do this, I'm using a call to shell_exec to call the WKHTMLTOPDF executable. However, this particular call does not seem to be executed; it returns NULL almost instantly. A small test I did gave me the following results: var_du...
If I execute with shell_exec() external program (unix) and it works for more than 30 seconds, PHP dies with Fatal error. That's because external program hanged/crashed or I don't know. I want to catch this error. try{}..catch{} does not work in here. Any ideas how to know if external program is hanged? Usually my external program runs u...
Trying to figure this out. I am trying to execute a perl script within php, using shell_exec() like so: <?php $output=shell_exec("./tst.pl > test.txt"); //$output=shell_exec("./tst.pl"); echo $output; ?> It will not write output to a file using ">" filename.txt. It will work if I execute without directing it to a filename as I can con...
Hi all, I'm trying to setup CutyCapt on my Ubuntu 10.4 server. I generate a thumbnail using the following command in SSH: xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 1, 1280x1200x24" ./CutyCapt --url=http://www.google.dk --out=/var/www/user/data/www/domain.com/test.png --min-width=1280 --min-height=1200 ... and it's working great! Though when...
I have a bash script which runs without needing to be root. But when I run it via shell_exec() (or system(), or exec()) like this: return system("/home/tom/rrd/rrdtool-drawgraph.sh $interval $multiples - debug 2>&1;"); I get the following message: sh: /home/tom/rrd/rrdtool-drawgraph.sh: Permission denied (Strangely, the message...
Is it possible to execute shell commands on a remote computer (not localhost)? For instance things like $output = shell_exec("unzip filename.zip"); You can assume that you have the login credentials of a user account on the remote machine, as well as the remote root username, password, and cpanel remote access key. ...
I want a PHP function which receives the path to a file and returns an array of information about it. The PHP file can call FFmpeg. Returned data should be something like Array( [mime] => video/ogg [container] => Ogg [video] => Theora [audio] => Vorbis [duration] => 20.3 // in secon...
Hi there are multiple specific examples but I just wanted to have a working generic calling PHP into background example from shell_exec. So my php function runs a large processing job. On the top of the script (process.php) I put? !#usr/bin/php i think - any way to get that specific path, maybe 'which php'? then the actual command ...
Hello, I am wondering how to start a screen session from PHP, I have tried with shell_exec(), system() and passthru(), but no avail. I have gotten the screen session started for the execution time of the script, but after it has finished loading, it kills the screen session it just created. (By starting a screen session and executing '...
Hi I'm using the shell_exec command from a PHP script: $output = shell_exec('ls -l'); print_r($output); Terminal: php test.php Which results in the directory listing as expected. Switch to my browser I get no output. I need to grant privileges to the user 'apache' so that it can execute certain commands, or add the user to a group ...