shell_exec() issues

[denoteone]

my php page should return the data for and IP address after I shell_exec(); a variable containing the command to be sent to the system.

 

what is getting returned is

sh: line 1: whois: command not found

 

could this have something to do with access issues on my godaddy hosting account? below is the function that is supposed to echo the data.

 

$whois_ip_server = 'whois.arin.net';
$arin_ip = whois_ip($whois_ip_server, '-1', 'TRUE');


function whois_ip($whois_ip_server, $whois_ip_port, $do_echo)
{
if (eregi("^[a-z0-9\:\.\-]+$", $whois_ip_server))
{
	$host_ip = '62.219.133.209';

	// The whois server "whois.arin.net" requires a "+" flag to get all the details
	if ($whois_ip_server == 'whois.arin.net') {
		$whois_ip_server .= ' +'; }

	// Set a variable containing the command to be sent to the system
	$command = "whois -h $whois_ip_server $host_ip";

	// If we passed a specific port to this function to connect to, add the necessary info to the command
	if ($whois_ip_port > 0) {
		$command .= " -p $whois_ip_port"; }

	// Send the whois command to the system
	//   Normally, the shell_exec function does not report STDERR messages.  The "2>&1" option tells the system
	//   to pipe STDERR to STDOUT so if there is an error, we can see it.
	$fp = shell_exec("$command 2>&1");

	// If the $do_echo variable is set to "TRUE", send the results to the parse_output() function...
	if ($do_echo == 'TRUE')
	{
		$output = '<b>Whois (IP) Results:</b><blockquote>';
		$output .= nl2br(htmlentities(trim($fp)));
		$output .= '</blockquote>';

		echo $output;
	}
	// ...otherwise, return the results in a variable (i.e. for the ip_to_country() function)
	else {
		return $fp; }
}
else
{
	echo '<b>Whois (IP) Results:</b><blockquote>';
	echo 'Invalid character(s) in the Whois (IP) Server field.';
	echo '</blockquote>';
}
}

[sKunKbad]

More than likely, Godaddy has probably added something like this in your php.ini:

 

disable_functions = "exec,system,passthru,readfile,shell_exec,escapeshellarg,escapeshellcmd,proc_close,proc_open,ini_alter,dl,popen,show_source"

 

If you can alter this, then you might be able to do what you want to do.

[DyslexicDog]

looks like you're whois command isn't found in the default path. Try to determine where the whois command resides on the server, and be sure to include the full path to the whois executable.

[denoteone]

Ran On my test server at work and it seems to be working fine.

 

 

[trq]

Ran On my test server at work and it seems to be working fine.

 

 

 

Does that mean your problem is solved then?