Joe -
That is just the thing, other commands (ls, df, du, cat..etc) work
fine. The fact that it the 'top' works on command line, but not in the
browser initially led me to believe that it had something to do with the
escape characters, after using 'sed' to remove those, I still have nothing
however. Very strange issue.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Joe Brown wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:30:11 -0500
> From: Joe Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] "DF" output
>
> heh,
> dunno, maybe the $PATH environment var doesn't include /sbin or /usr/sbin.
>
> Test w 'ls' see if you can get a directory listing, at least?
>
> "Steven Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Brad,
> >
> > Thanks for the response. Either method they both work via command
> > line. Neither of them work in the browser.
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Brad S. Jackson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Try $top = `top n 1 b | head -8 | sed 's/[\$|^M]//g'`;
> > >
> > > In my experience, you can't use | in exec calls, you have to use the
> back tick
> > > method.
> > >
> > >
> > > Steven Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Bad example (changed to ps and it works actually..but i dont want 'ps',
> I
> > > want 'top'). Ran top using su to the user 'www' from the command line
> and
> > > was able to run it fine.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Joe Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:35:08 -0500
> > > > From: Joe Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] "DF" output
> > > >
> > > > nobody has execute permission on ps?
> > > >
> > > > Probably quite the opposite, your webserver user doesn't have execute
> > > > permission on ps, so there is no execution or return value.
> > > >
> > > > "Steven Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > I am writing a script, actually modifying PhPSysInfo to include the
> top
> > > > > processes used on a machine. So far, no matter what I do, I can
> only get
> > > > > it to work via the command line. I get a blank screen when trying
> it via
> > > > > the browser:
> > > > >
> > > > > Tried this:
> > > > >
> > > > > <?php
> > > > > $data = `ps auxwww`; echo nl2br($data);
> > > > > ?>
> > > > >
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > > > and this:
> > > > >
> > > > > <TT>
> > > > > <PRE>
> > > > > <?php
> > > > > exec("/usr/bin/top n 1 b | head -8 | sed 's/[\$|^M]//g'", $top);
> > > > > while (list(,$line) = each($top)){
> > > > > echo $line, "<BR>\n";
> > > > > }
> > > > > ?>
> > > > > </PRE>
> > > > > </TT>
> > > > >
> > > > > I used sed to remove control characters..etc. Again, both examples
> above
> > > > > work via the command line, but not via a browser. User "www" is
> able to
> > > > > run this command as well, so it's not permissions. Help?! :)
> > > > >
> > > > >
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