[SOLVED] php to run shell script to create and delete files

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Hi everyone,

 

I'm kind of new to php and this is my first post 

 

I manage to install PHP and PosgreSQL

 

I have this php code:  Starts a shell script which needs to create and delete some files.

 

      $run_command="sh test.php";

      trace("External_Publish_Request:getExternalDirectoryArray(): exec ".$run_command,3);

      exec ($run_command, &$dir_list, &$rc);

 

The  command failes when the shell script tries to create a file: echo "this is the list:" > temp.txt

 

The shell script can run simple commands except create files or run commands outside of the php web dir.

 

I think there must be some setting I must set on PHP or some work around to do this.

 

thanks,

l2l

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I needed to set the dir access to rwx on the dir I want to write and delete files