I feel dumb...
$string="rpm -qd $rpmname 2>/dev/null |head -1 |sed s?\"$documentdir\"?\"\"? |cut
-d\"/\" -f2";
On Monday, March 5, 2001, at 09:33 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I have the following php function-
>
> function doclink ($documentdir, $rpmname, $doc_file) {
> $string="rpm -qd $rpmname |head -1 |sed s?\"$documentdir\"?\"\"? |cut -d\"/\"
>-f2";
> $rpm_installed=exec($string);
> $DOC_ABSOLUTE="$documentdir/$rpm_installed";
> if (file_exists("$DOC_ABSOLUTE/$doc_file")) {
> if (is_link("$rpmname")) {
> unlink("$rpmname");
> }
> symlink("$DOC_ABSOLUTE", "$rpmname");
> return "$rpmname/$doc_file";
> } else {
> return "failed";
> }
> }
>
> later its used when creating a page of documentation links for the user, like this-
>
> $mysqldoc=doclink($docdir, "MySQL", "manual_toc.html");
> if (strstr($mysqldoc,"failed")) {
> echo "<!-- could not locate MySQL documentation -->\n";
> } else {
> echo "<P><font face=$font color=$color size=$size><A href=\"$mysqldoc\">MySQL
> Documentation</A></font>\n";
> }
>
> Works beautifully, problem is- if the rpm isn't installed that's querried in the
>doclink
> function, the error message rpm puts out is sent to the apache error.log. I don't
>want that.
>
> Is there a way to supress the error message for that exec call?
>
> Thanks
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