system call returns return code -1

[ganesh]

Hi,

i have a cgi file and in that i am calling the system('ls')
system('ls');
its returning a return code of -1 ,permission denied.

so i added apache user having permissions to execute the ls command in
/etc/sudoers file.
and relaced the system function with
system("sudo","ls");
still i am getting the above same error.

can anyone help me out in solving this.

thanks.

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[Chris Davies]

ganesh <gmac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have a cgi file and in that i am calling the system('ls')

> its returning a return code of -1 ,permission denied.

What language is your CGI script written in? Presumably this is on a
UNIX box? What makes you think that when system() returns -1 it's a
"permission denied" error on the program itself?

Incidentally, do you know for sure what directory the CGI process is
actually executing in? (Not executing *from*, but executing *in*.)

> so i added apache user having permissions to execute the ls command in
> /etc/sudoers file.

Arrgghh. What reasoning did you apply to determine that the apache user
didn't have permissions to run "ls"?

Chris