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php exec/shell_exec behavior CLI vs CGI
I am trying to use php to run some system commands and am getting a behaviour that I don't fully understand. If the php script is run from the command line I get the results I expect. But running it ...
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Execute an shell script with sudo inside from php
I want to execute a command line command as root from a php file. In my case I want to view the crontab file in my php page. Running the sudo command in php is not recommended and on my raspberry pi ...
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Issues with bash script containing exigrep command when invoked from PHP webpage
I have a bash script to extract information from exim_mainlog. When the bash script is run from a putty command line (logged in as root), the extracted data is properly written to an output file. ...
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Mount does not work in script when run by php
So I have a script that's placed in my apache2 html folder and should be executed by an http post. The script requires root (I know that's not safe at all, ignore that please), so I set the user www-...
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PHP shell_exec to run debian system service
I'm trying to control a system service with PHP's shell_exec function : shell_exec('sudo /usr/sbin/service icecast2 stop'); But the only way I can get it to work is by allowing ALL users root access ...
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Understanding exec
I need to understand the following script sequence. $command .= "n\n\n\n\nt\n7\nc\nw\n"; exec("echo -e \"{$command}\" | /sbin/fdisk {$kernelDevice}"); I can't figure out which ...
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exec in php does not work
I'm running apache with php 7.0 on a raspberry pi 3. When I use the curl command on the command line, it works great. But when I use this command in my PHP code, it does nothing. Any idea what this ...
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Find only in directories n levels deep
I use this command to find and run all istances of wp-cron.php I have for each site I have: find /var/www/ -name 'wp-cron.php' -exec php -q "{}" \; Since my websites tree is: /var/www/site1/htdocs/...
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PHP exec and amixer
I'm trying to make php lower the dB level of amixer using exec, but it seems like php isn't able to perform the task which requires sudo-access. What should be the best way to solve this? I tried: ...
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Bash in php exec in webpage don't colors for png and mp3 files on Linux
I have code like this in php: header("Content-Type: text/plain"); exec("/bin/bash -c 'ls --color=always'", $result); echo implode("\n", $result); and I've got result (escape is not visible) Makefile ...
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php shell_exec() permission on Linux Ubuntu
I'm developing a php application using Linux server. My problem is executing shell_exec() to call some exe file is not work(actually not exe, it's kind of linux executable file) echo shell_exec("...
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PHP exec command has the result 0 even if an error occurs
I have this PHP code: $execout=exec('ssh [email protected] "sudo /etc/init.d/smokeping reload"',$output1,$result); if($result !=0){ echo"that can't reload"; } else{ echo "successfully ...
