Question

Well, i have this program i need to run via either functions however it is located on my dekstop (this ubuntu 11.04).

I moved it to /home/Username, but no dice.

I run

$blah = exec('sudo | echo mypassword | /home/server1/program commandhere', $test); 
var_dump($test); 
var_dump($blah); ?>

The output is nothing.

I was told if i wanted to run it via sudo i needed to add the Apache user which is www-data to the sudoers list, i added it, but no luck again.
Basically, i’ve tried A LOT of things, it just wont run. Why?

EDIT:
If i paste that into the terminal it works great, just not with exec,system nor passtrhu.

Answer 1

Use echo mypassword | sudo -S instead.

It also depends on which user has sudo privileges. If you want to run this from the apache process, you need to give the apache user sudo privileges as well.

Also, just to clarify, the command should be:

echo mypassword | sudo -S /home/server1/program commandhere