Martijn van Duren <openbsd+m...@list.imperialat.at> writes: > You haven't given enough information for a definitive answer, but my > guess is that you run php through php-fpm, which is by default chrooted > to /var/www. Since shell_exec and system first call /bin/sh and you > most likely didn't copy it to /var/www/bin/sh it can't find your shell. > After that you'd also need to copy the binaries (in this case ls) to > your chroot and possible library dependencies (not needed for files > under /bin). > > Hope this helps for illustrative purposes, but please don't use it in > production.
Agree this is likely the problem, unfortunately in PHP-land sometimes you can't avoid it. For platforms such as Drupal (just to pick an example I am familiar with) some of the modules will run shell commands to do things such as send email. Allan
