Posted by Synapse Syndrome on 10/27/06 16:09

"Geoffrey" <google.poster@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1161884104.955751.247510@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> Hmmmm...well, as everyone has already pointed out, it is a PHP script.
> But as written, it will NOT run under Windows, because the shell
> commands are Linux/Unix commands. You will need to replace these
> commands with their DOS equivalents. If, however, you have Cygwin or
> something similar installed on your Windows machine, it may run just
> fine as-is.
>
> Given that someone else wrote this script and gave it to you under the
> pretense of trustworthiness, my only advice would be to pay close
> attention to the shell commands. Although they might turn out to be
> totally innocuous, I'm suspicious of anything that performs "rm -rf"
> and wouldn't be so quick to install it on my production systems without
> knowing for sure what the consequences are.


Thanks. Just as a quick pointer, what would be the command to replace teh
shell_exec() commands, so I can read about it? I know DOS pretty well.

ss.

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