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[JustinMs66]

$cmd = 'ping -c 2 www.yahoo.com > response.txt 2>&1';
 $shellOutput = shell_exec($cmd);

i am trying to get a ping command to work with php and that returns:
ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted

i tried changing to owner to the user that php executes the script on, and root. it changes nothing.

can someone please help me?

also, i am running on CentOS SE, PHP 5.2.3, Apache 1.3.

[Demonslay]

I suspect you aren't allowed to use shell_exec(). I honestly don't know what error it would return in that instance, but check your phpinfo() for any disabled_functions in the php.ini directives.

Otherwise, see it works with just a plain ping command, without the -c flag and all the other stuff, make sure that ping works period.