Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 11:34:48 EDT 2007


  I believe this is the safe_mode setting in the php.ini file.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php

On 4/26/07, Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
> When installing a system for a client I accepted the new default setting
> for PHP configuration that disable functions system as exec(),
> passthru(), and system(). Unfortunately quite a bit of their intranet
> code uses the system() function. So I've spent the past hour or so
> trying to figure out how to enable the use of this function. I had
> expected to find the disable_functions setting in the php.ini file to
> contain a list that included this function. But no, it was completely blank.
>
> I've scoured the web server config files as well, sysconfig directory,
> everyplace that I could think of and no luck. Searchin the red hat site
> also comes up empty.
>
> I'm hoping that someone out there knows the magic incantation, I've got
> my eye of newt at the ready in order to complete the magic...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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