Hi,

I'm working with a script which must launch vmware server 1.0.3
(Virtualization product) and I can launch it from a terminal:
$php miscript.php
but when I use firefox it just doesn't work.
I've checked the permissions for vmware and the apache user but without
any success.
Can you me what i'm doing wrong?


local.php
------------------------
<?php
echo "Lanzando vmware\n";
system('whoami');
system('/var/www/procesa.pl');
?>
------------------------


procesa.pl
------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
system ('/usr/bin/vmware');
------------------------

Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks
--
Julio César GarcÃa VizcaÃno.
FI, UNAM.
Por mi raza hablará el espÃritu

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Julio César García Vizcaíno
<fuego216@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working with a script which must launch vmware server 1.0.3
> (Virtualization product) and I can launch it from a terminal:
> $php miscript.php
> but when I use firefox it just doesn't work.
[snip!]
>
> local.php
> ------------------------
> <?php
> echo "Lanzando vmware\n";
> system('whoami');
> system('/var/www/procesa.pl');
> ?>
> ------------------------

Try rewriting the above as follows:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "Lanzando vmware\n";
exec('whoami',$who_ret);
exec('/var/www/procesa.pl',$procesa_ret,$err);
echo !isset($argv[0]) ? "<pre />\n" : null;
print_r($who_ret);
print_r($procesa_ret);
echo !isset($argv[0]) ? "</pre>\n" : null;
if(isset($err) && $err != 0) {
echo "Process launching returned error code ".$err."\n";
} else {
echo "Successfully launched!\n";
}
?>

However, I'm not really certain why you need to call the Perl
script. What I would consider doing myself is the following:

<?php
exec('whoami',$who);
echo "Attempting to launch VMWare process as ".$who.".\n";
exec('/usr/bin/vmware & 2>1',$ret,$err);
echo isset($err) && $err != 0 ? "Error code: ".$err."\n" : null;
echo

> Sorry for my bad english.

Your English is better than some of the native speakers we have
here, so no need to apologize! ;-P

--
</Daniel P. Brown>
Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer
1+ (570-) 362-0283

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try rewriting the above as follows:
[code snip]
>
> However, I'm not really certain why you need to call the Perl
> script. What I would consider doing myself is the following:
[code snip]

Sorry, I got jumpy with the Send button and hadn't fixed the rest
of the post before sending. I think that I'm doing too many things at
once.

<?php
exec('whoami',$who);
echo "Attempting to launch VMWare process as ".$who[0].".<br />\n";
exec('/usr/bin/vmware & 2>1',$ret,$err);
echo isset($err) && $err != 0 ? "Error code: ".$err."<br />\n" : null;
echo "Output is as follows:<br />\n";
echo "<pre />\n";
print_r($ret);
echo "</pre>\n";
?>

The error redirect to STDOUT should print out whatever error
messages are being received by the script.

--
</Daniel P. Brown>
Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer
1+ (570-) 362-0283

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Julio César García Vizcaíno
<fuego216@gmail.com> wrote:
> $tail error.log
> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
[snip!]

This is the first result on Google. Try to STFW with that error
message and it should hopefully you out.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/484981


--
</Daniel P. Brown>
Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer
1+ (570-) 362-0283