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[nycphp-talk] using exec or backticks

Raymond DeRoo rainman at deroo.net
Fri Jun 28 14:17:27 EDT 2002


Ian--

> $command = "mysqldump -h localhost -u ian --password=something --opt
> adatabase > db.sql";
> $result = `$command`;
>
> or exec("mysqldump -h localhost -u ian --password=something --opt adatabase
>
> > db.sql");

Can the user your httpd runs as execute mysqldump? Even if it can, I doubt 
that mysqldump is in the path of the environment your httpd runs as. Try 
specifying the complete path to mysqldump and see if that works.

.r



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