On 2024-05-17, Martijn van Duren <openbsd+m...@list.imperialat.at> wrote: > On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 21:58 -0400, F Bax wrote: >> I think I missed something simple? I installed 7.5 release in a VM. I then >> installed nginx and PHP 8.3.3; with pkg_add. I then ran these two commands: >> # rcctl enable php83_fpm >> # rcctl start php83_fpm >> I found an issue with php system() function; so created this simple script >> which produces "HiThere"; why is the date not presented? >> >> <?php >> echo 'Hi'; >> system( 'date' ); >> echo 'There'; >> ?> > > All the advise I've seen is horrible. chroot isn't enabled by default > without a reason (php and security have a history). > My first question would by why you need system() in the first place. > If you need the date/time, just use > https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php. If it's just a proof > of concept be more precise in what you want to achieve and see if > there's a PHP library equivalent. If there's no reasonable way to > achieve it (which I highly doubt) I advise to copy the required binary > (and dependencies) into the chroot and make a memo to keep them up to > date.
There's some information about this in PHP's pkg-readme file. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
