Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] (no subject)

[Barry V. A. <ba...@vo...>]

I am able to system() on a client's godaddy account, I'm not sure what 
they're hosting type is, but I have ssh access (but it's not virtual 
dedicated).

I'd go through each of system/exec/passthru et al and see if one of them 
works

-barry


Tom Printy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for the replies.  Looks like safe mode is turned off:
> http://textconn.com/sms/info.php
> 
> 
> My guess is that Sara is correct in that they disabled the shell_exec
> call. 
> 
> I suppose I could try just the basic exec() command and see if that
> works, however I bet they have the same limitations.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tips I will keep working on this.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:44 -0800, matt donohue wrote:
>> You can check your php.ini file and if it's running safe mode no dice.
>> echo phpinfo();
>> ini_set("safe_mode",0) works for some php installs (see manual).
>>
>> Or- ditch GoDaddy and get a real hosting solution that has root. It costs the same.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Sara Trice <sa...@sa...>
>> To: Chicago PHP User Group <chi...@li...>
>> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 5:54:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] (no subject)
>>
>> I'm 99% sure shell_exec() is disabled on GoDaddy because ... well,
>> it's a cheap webhost, and rather than secure their servers, they
>> eliminate problems by not offering features.
>>
>> -Sara
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tom Printy <tp...@ma...> wrote:
>>> Hey Guys/Gals,
>>>
>>> I have some software that I am working with that is running on GoDaddy.
>>> I am attempting to have PHP call another script to run in the
>>> background. However I am running into so troubles and I was wondering if
>>> anyone else has had any success with this. Here is what I am doing:
>>>
>>> shell_exec("nohup /home/content/t/e/x/textconn/html/sms/sendmessages.pl
>>> 2> /dev/null &");
>>>
>>> The php scipt seems to hang at this point and the browser then times
>>> out.
>>>
>>> Any advice?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Tom Printy
>>> www.edisonave.com
>>>
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