[K12OSN] PHP help

[Huck]

security an issue? ...
if not .. chown the file...or make a group that can exec it and join 
that group?

Doug Simpson wrote:
> Uhhh. . . I lied. . . when I ran it as a non-root user, it returned:
> 
> Error: Couldn't get the port at 378
> 
> This is likely why. . . what to do about this?
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:00 -0600, Doug Simpson wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all you PHP programmers out there!
>>>
>>>I have a program that I need to be able to run from inside a php script 
>>>that produces a web page.
>>>
>>>The program allows you to set the pins on the parallel port to high or low 
>>>based on commandline.
>>>
>>>Example:
>>>
>>>lptout 34
>>>
>>>will set datalines 2 and 6 high and leave the rest off.
>>>
>>>I need to be able to accomplish this with php.
>>>
>>>A web form asks for a number between 0 and 255 and passes it to the php 
>>>with a variable name "$bits"
>>>
>>>So, I should be able to use:
>>>
>>>system("lptout $bits" , $retval);
>>>
>>>and it should do the same as running from the commandline:
>>>
>>>lptout (bits) where bits is the number
>>>
>>>The commandline method works, but I can't do it in PHP. Anyone got any 
>>>ideas?
>>>
>>
>>Does the lptout command actually get run by the php script?  Maybe the
>>PATH to lptout isn't correct.  Does it need to be executed as a certain
>>user in order to run?  Perhaps you have to use a setuid binary in this
>>situation.
>>
>>-Toshio
>>
> 
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