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Why wont PHP 3 excute shell commands??? I have tried $string = system("/bin/tar -cf /home/www/backups/backup.tar /home/www/functions");

Feb 18th, 2008 19:28
dman, Pavel Prishivalko, Robert -, http://www.ttnr.org

Try:

$string = `/bin/tar -cf /home/www/backups/backup.tar /home/www/functions`;

NOTE: ` - is a backtick