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Exec and system do not work in PHP

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This works -

$out = system("ls -l ",$retvals);
printf("%s", $out);

This does -

echo exec("ls -l");

This does not -

if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
{
 $out = system("touch /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
 $out2 = system("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt", $ret);
 echo 'file2
';
 echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
}

and this does not -

if( !file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt"));
{
 exec("touch /var/www/orders.txt");
 exec("chmod 766 /var/www/orders.txt");
 echo 'file2
';
 echo file_exists("/var/www/orders.txt");
}
posted Aug 26, 2013 by Kumar Mitrasen

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Is there a reason you're using shell commands to achieve the following:
Also, why are you setting the executable bit on a text file? :)

1 Answer

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*/var/www* is usually under *www* user. It may be a permissions problem.

answer Aug 26, 2013 by Abhay Kulkarni
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