Posted by Richard Lynch on 10/01/39 11:10

> I actually do care about the return code from the program, as well as
> knowing that the program executed and completed successfully, so
> background execution is not a valid option.
>
> I tried using system("ssh user@host mycommand > /dev/null 2>&1") and got
> the same results.
>
> You are correct that I am using "su" to become the same user that the
> web server runs under, after temporarily changing the password file to
> give said user a valid shell. I can verify that the shell does not
> affect whether this problem occurs or not, and I have determined that
> the SSH process is not left lying around after it executes- The remote
> command is run, ssh executes, PHP simply never comes back.
>
> Bug link is here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22946
>
> At this point I'd love to hear from anyone running a different version
> of PHP, OS, or Apache who can actually execute this to find out if they
> experience results which are the same or different.

I believe 'su' requires an actual TTY connection or it aborts...

Could be wrong.

"man su"

Why are you doing ssh anyway?

scp, maybe, but...

Sure you're not taking web-based user into and then doing SSH to execute
it on a different server?... [shudder]

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