[ILUG] weird php output

[Dave Burke]

I've got a php script the dumps out some system stats for our members to a
webpage. One of the things I threw in was the disk space used on the
server, so I just stuck in the following into the php script....

system("df -hl");

Grand. Worked, no problems. I went and added in an IDE drive into the
system there last week and that doesn't show up on the website.

Let me show you with an example from a command prompt.....

[dburke at hoth dburke]$ df -hl
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             486M  164M  297M  36% /
/dev/sda9              12G  5.9G  5.1G  53% /home
/dev/sda7             243M  366k  230M   0% /tmp
/dev/sda5             2.9G  852M  1.9G  30% /usr
/dev/sda6             1.4G  530M  877M  38% /var
/dev/hdd1             4.0G  1.8G  2.0G  47% /backup
//compserver/notes    2.0G  1.6G  443M  78% /mnt/notes

So we can see the scsi drive(sda), the ide drive (hdd) & an smbfs mount I
got.

So we go to the website and it's output from the same command is....

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             486M  164M  297M  36% /
/dev/sda9              12G  5.9G  5.1G  53% /home
/dev/sda7             243M  365k  230M   0% /tmp
/dev/sda5             2.9G  852M  1.9G  30% /usr
/dev/sda6             1.4G  530M  877M  38% /var
//compserver/notes    2.0G  1.6G  443M  78% /mnt/notes

So here we have the scsi drive & the smbfs mount, but somewhere along the
line, the line containing info about the IDE (hdd) drive has gone.

According to the PHP manual the system call "Execute an external program
and display output". It's not a major issue, but I'm just scratching my
head as to how I'm losing a line of output ?

Dave


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