Posted by Marty Meyers on 12/07/05 03:14

I have the following line in a php file:

$msg= exec("perl $scriptPath/insert.pl $d $u $t 2>&1", $returnVal);

Can someone explain the "2>&1" argument?


Second problem, this same line of code when run from the unix command line
returns the following error:

sh: /perl: No such file or directory

I've verified that perl is located in /usr/bin/
/usr/bin is in the environment variable "PATH"
all the directories from php program to the root and back down to usr/bin
have 755 permissions.
if I run the program (insert.pl) from the command line it works
I've tried putting the following in both the php and perl programs:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/bin

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Marty

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