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I am using SuSE 7.1, Apache 1.3.14 and PHP 4.0.4pl1 - Using the examples you have online and in my PHP Core Programming book for the system() it fails - an example piece of code would be

<?
phpinfo();
system("ls -l");
?>

Replacing the 'ls -l' with a date command, with or without a pathname and quotes gets no response either.  The only error I get is reported in my Apache error_log which says 

sh: /ls: No such file or directory

Note, again, the message above occurs regardless if I prefix my command with its correct full pathname or not.

In order to assist anybody who might be able to help I have uploaded my configuration files to

http://www.fiprojects.com/php.ini.conf  and
http://www.fiprojects.com/httpd.conf

Note, my php.ini file is called php.ini on my system, I haev renamed it to make it easier on most folks browsers on purpose.

Many thanks - and keep up the good work...
randell d.

Apologies - the sample piece of code I included eariler did not make it clear that the phpinfo(); responds fine confirming my php installation is working - however I do not get anything useful from using the system() function other than the message in my Apache log file that I mentioned earlier... and... I'm using SuSE 7.1 kernal 2.4.0-4Gb

Sorry... and thanks again...
laters
randell d.

Check your safe_mode and safe_mode_exec_dir configuration
settings.