Re: trying to use EXEC with Zend

[Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>]

what you are seeing appears to be running on the host the web server is on.
Assuming the host is IBM i, try using "ls -la" or "pwd" as the EXEC command.

Bryan



Larry Kleinman wrote on 12/4/2014 3:10 PM:
> I want my PHP script to run a DOS command on the PC whose browser opened
> the script,   It looks like EXEC should do this, but no matter what
> command I use - including easy stuff like DIR or IPCONFIG - I get a "file
> not found" message.    For example, if the script contains
>
> $test= exec('dir 2>&1', $output);
>   echo  $test;
>   echo '<BR>';
>   var_dump($output);
>
> I get
>
> sh: dir: not found.
> array(1) { [0]=> string(20) "sh: dir: not found." }
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Larry Kleinman
> Kleinman Associates, Inc.
> 212-949-6469