Posted by Max on 08/11/05 05:45

Did you check /var/log/httpd/error_log?

Try:
<?
$result = `cp -v /files/* /newdirectory`;
print $result;
?>

You could also try using the PHP command 'copy' although you have to be real
careful with permissions.

Max

"David" <test@test> wrote in message
news:Xns96AEDBD6392A4testtest@38.119.71.69...
>I was trying to execute a system command on my server from a php page to
> copy files from one directory to another.
>
> example:
>
> <? system ('cp /files/* /newdirectory') ?>
>
> This did not copy the files, I also tried doing a chown nobody
> /newdirectory since php runs under nobody user. This still did not work.
> Any suggestions?
>
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