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Re: Only Allow exec in CLI [message #179185 is a reply to message #179183] Mon, 24 September 2012 14:04 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Erwin Moller is currently offline  Erwin Moller
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On 9/24/2012 2:54 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <k3ph16$7ur$5(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> M. Strobel wrote:
>>>> Am 24.09.2012 01:14, schrieb cph:
>>>> > For security I am looking to add exec() and similar commands to
>>> the >> disable functions >> setting in php.ini but I do have a need
>>> to execute command line commands >> within a cron job I am writing in
>>> PHP.
>>>> > The answer is highly dependent on your system setup, as has been
>>> said > already. I would start with a check to see if different .ini
>>> files
>>>> for web server and CLI are in place already.
>>
>>> I cant imagine why anyone would put PHP in a cron job to start with.
>>>
>>> Shell script or C, or both...
>>
>> Neither. PHP is a lot easier to write and I can't see that there's
>> going to be a great deal that you can't do in PHP that you can with
>> the others. Unless you need every last CPU cycle of course.
>>
> Actually there is a very great deal you can do in C that you cant do in
> PHP.
>
> Multitasking for one thing.
>

Of course there are many things you can do in C and not in PHP.
Like writing drivers for your graphics card.

But realistically, what multitasking cronjobs do you exactly envision
here? I cannot think of one.

Regards,
Erwin Moller


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