Posted by jonathan.beckett on 02/03/06 16:31

Yep - I've already read the PHP website (it was the first place I
looked after we found out shell_exec was misbehaving).

Some background would probably help - the script call worked before the
server was locked down and put in the DMZ for public access.

Following that, the script call didn't work any more. I have stuck a
test script on the server just calling shell_exec("dir"); and it's
hanging... on my test box if I remove permissions on cmd.exe, it just
returns an empty string (i.e. what you would expect).

I'm still waiting for the apache logs - hopefully they will provide
some more meaningful information...

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