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Re: Only Allow exec in CLI [message #179189 is a reply to message #179187] Mon, 24 September 2012 18:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Tim Streater is currently offline  Tim Streater
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In article <k3pt3a$44d$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> Erwin Moller wrote:
>> On 9/24/2012 2:54 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Tim Streater wrote:
>>>> In article <k3ph16$7ur$5(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

>>>> > I cant imagine why anyone would put PHP in a cron job to start with.
>>>> >
>>>> > Shell script or C, or both...
>>>>
>>>> Neither. PHP is a lot easier to write and I can't see that there's
>>>> going to be a great deal that you can't do in PHP that you can with
>>>> the others. Unless you need every last CPU cycle of course.
>>>>
>>> Actually there is a very great deal you can do in C that you cant do in
>>> PHP.
>>>
>>> Multitasking for one thing.
>>>
>>
>> Of course there are many things you can do in C and not in PHP.
>> Like writing drivers for your graphics card.
>>
>> But realistically, what multitasking cronjobs do you exactly envision
>> here? I cannot think of one.

> Multitasking *for one thing*. Not the only difference. ONE difference.
>
> There are dozens more libraries doing custom stuff better than PHP .
>
> Else why would the OP NEED to 'exec'?

Prolly to do specific things that you can't do in PHP. Hmmm, furtle,
furtle:

Looks like I do it:

1) to open a file using the designated app for the file, in a window on
the user's screen. So I do:

$cmd = "/usr/bin/open \"" . $filename . "\" 2>&1";
exec ($cmd, $results, $result);

or possibly:

exec ("/usr/bin/open -a Safari.app 'http://...");


2) Starting and stopping apache, as in:

$cmd = "/usr/sbin/httpd -f \"" . $fno . "\" 2>&1";
exec ($cmd, $results, $result);

or the same with -k stop.

But I agree, these are not in cron jobs. Although if I had a cron job to
run I'd prolly do it in PHP if at all possible.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689
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