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Re: problems with exec() [message #177706 is a reply to message #177704]

Sun, 15 April 2012 22:16

M. Strobel
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Am 15.04.2012 19:43, schrieb J.O. Aho:
> 7segment wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have an interesting problem and I cannot figure out what the problem
>> might be.
>>
>> This does not produce any output:
>>
>> $response = exec('ifconfig');
>> echo $response;
>>
>> Although when I try other commands, I get a response on the screen. So I
>> don't get what's so special about ifconfig.
>>
>> Could anyone help please?
>
> ifconfig usually residence in /sbin (some GNU/Linux distribution are in the migration
> path of moving it to /usr/sbin), this directory is never in a normal users or a
> daemon users $PATH, so you need to give the whole path to this binary to be able to
> run it.
>
> By default the file is executional by all users, but someone may have changed
> permissions or setup ACL rules with for example SELinux.
>

I can tell that on opensuse it it not executable by normal users.

/Str.

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		problems with exec() By: 7segment on Sun, 15 April 2012 16:37
		Re: problems with exec() By: 7segment on Sun, 15 April 2012 16:47
		Re: problems with exec() By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 April 2012 17:34
		Re: problems with exec() By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 15 April 2012 17:43
		Re: problems with exec() By: M. Strobel on Sun, 15 April 2012 22:16
		Re: problems with exec() By: M. Strobel on Sun, 15 April 2012 22:22
		Re: problems with exec() By: J.O. Aho on Mon, 16 April 2012 05:17
		Re: problems with exec() By: Une Bvue on Mon, 16 April 2012 08:07
		Re: problems with exec() By: J.O. Aho on Mon, 16 April 2012 17:29
		Re: problems with exec() By: Une Bvue on Wed, 18 April 2012 13:44
		Re: problems with exec() By: J.O. Aho on Wed, 18 April 2012 16:02
		Re: problems with exec() By: Une Bvue on Wed, 18 April 2012 17:43
		Re: problems with exec() By: J.O. Aho on Wed, 18 April 2012 18:37
		Re: problems with exec() By: Une Bvue on Wed, 18 April 2012 21:31
		Re: problems with exec() By: Kim Andr Aker on Mon, 16 April 2012 11:27
		Re: problems with exec() By: M. Strobel on Mon, 16 April 2012 12:43

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