Hi guys,

I have this strangeness,

I'm using this command to mount an ftp drive:$ curlftpfs Anonymous:@debian.org /mnt/path

now, if i run this command from shell as www-data user (i gave it temp login privileges to test this -debian,lenny,apache2)

it mounts that drive; but if i do exec('curlftpfs Anonymous:@debian.org /mnt/path'); it doesn't do anything.


exec settings are fine, safe mode is not on, permissions are fine, if i do exec('whoami',$c);print_r($c); it says that i am www-data.


What might be causing this? I'm lost


Thanks..

From the 'print_r()' i surmise this is PHP, although you should have said.
Anyway, if you read http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php, you'll see that exec() is a fn that returns a value... more importantly, it effectively creates a sub-shell/env for the cmd to run in. however, when it completes, anything in the 'sub' env disappears, inc the mount...

I had faced this problem quite often. (not with curlftpfs command though).

Try to find out the location of your curlftpfs binary. I suppose its /usr/bin/curlftpfs, you just check it on your machine.

And then use in the code as below--

exec('/usr/bin/curlftpfs Anonymous:@debian.org /mnt/path');


I have came across such issue many times, I hope it resolves your issue.

Regards.

thanks suhas it worked like you said.

cool!! it was the first time when my suggestion worked for someone!!

cheers!!