wesleytabaka Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Hey guys. I got a little problem. I'm trying to set up a PHP script that'll execute an external application, vlc.exe (VideoLAN Player). Here's what I used: <?php $run=`start "VLC" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"`; echo $run; ?> My Server Details: Windows XP SP2 (Win32) Apache Server 2 PHP 5.0.5 And it runs it, but with a different user for the process. If you open up Windows Task Manager, and click the Processes tab, it lists processes by "Image Name", "User Name", "CPU", and "Mem Usage". The script above executes the vlc.exe, it shows up on Task Manager, but with the User Name "SYSTEM", I guess because PHP ran it. I need it to run with the User Name "Wesley Tabaka", my User Name. That's because when it runs on the SYSTEM account, it runs in the background and freezes PHP because PHP is waiting for a response from vlc.exe. So, is there any way to execute something in command prompt/shell using a different User Name? Thanks in Advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 You would need to configure php with support for suexec, but even then i'm not sure it would fix your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Hummm.. first question is why.. the reason i ask is, it maybe a problem.. as you could do this <?php $run=`runas \user:"Wesley Tabaka" "VLC" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"`; echo $run; ?> BUT it requires a password to be entered, and theirs no way to add it onto the CLI.. and blank passwords are not allowed! Other Option.. start->run->services.msc find apache or wampapache (if using wamp) double click and select the logon tab change to this account and enter username and password Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleytabaka Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 Terrific! I really appreciate it. It ran as my username and it starts up and everything! The only problem is that PHP still freezes because it wants a response from the command prompt. I tried to set a 5 second timeout, just so it wouldn't hang forever. I tried doing ini_set("max_execution_time", 5); and I also tried to do set_time_limit(5); Neither of them worked. And it's not like it times out after the default 30 seconds, either. It goes forever. Anything I can do? Here's the entire script: <?php ini_set("max_execution_time", 5); error_reporting(E_ALL); echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>[' . $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] . '] Webcam Daemon</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css.php" /> </head> <body> <center> <br /> <table class="table" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;width:300px;height:150px"> <tr><td class="header">Camera Daemon</td></tr> '; function camera(){ return ($cam=fsockopen("192.168.1.2", 527, $errstr, $errno, "2") ? true : false); fclose($cam); } if(!$_POST){ echo '<form action="' . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . '" method="post">'; if(camera()){ //Write Disable button if on... echo '<input type="hidden" name="type" value="disable" /> <tr><td class="cell"><input type="submit" value="Disable Camera" /></td></tr>'; } else { //Write Enable button if off... echo '<input type="hidden" name="type" value="enable" /> <tr><td class="cell"><input type="submit" value="Enable Camera" /></td></tr>'; } echo '</form>'; } else { echo '<tr><td class="cell">'; if($_POST["type"]=="disable"){ echo '<!--'; system("kill -f vlc.exe"); echo '-->Camera Disabled'; } else { //echo '<!--'; $sys_cmd=`start "title" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" dshow:// :dshow-vdev="IBM PC Camera" :dshow-adev="none" :dshow-size="" :dshow-caching=200 :dshow-chroma="" :dshow-fps=10.000000 :no-dshow-config :no-dshow-tuner :dshow-tuner-channel=0 :dshow-tuner-country=0 :dshow-tuner-input=0 :dshow-video-input=-1 :dshow-audio-input=-1 :dshow-video-output=-1 :dshow-audio-output=-1 --sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=64,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=http,mux=asf,dst=192.168.1.2:527}}`; echo $sys_cmd . '|'; //system($sys_cmd, $retval); echo 'Camera Enabled'; //print_r($retval); } echo '</td></tr>'; } echo '</form> </table> </center> </body> </html>'; ?> Any obvious errors? Maybe because PHP flushes output after a command prompt query it takes forever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 download PsTOOLS Get extract psexec, (put it in your %path%) and replace start with psexec -d -d Don't wait for application to terminate. Only use this option for non-interactive applications. that should do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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