Posted by Greg Donald on 10/21/91 11:05

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:31:53 -0800 (PST), Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
> -r isn't listed in my php -h, so I dunno what it does, but...

r is for run.

> I don't think that's the DISPLAY environment variable set by the CLIENT
> surfing from their Linux box is it?

It's not, was that a requirement.. doh.

> Is that not the DISPLAY you, the webmaster, are using for your shell?

Yes it is.

> Which, in the case of a PHP Module of Apache, is most likely '' since the
> server probably doesn't even have X on it, much less a shell environment
> for the 'apache' User, much less a default DISPLAY variable set for that
> user...
>
> Try putting your code on your web server and surfing to it. What do you
> get as output?

Not much.


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Greg Donald
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