php and Eclipse

[gally]

I wrote a scrit which mounts an external device, makes some backups then umount the device.

Everything works ok when I run the script under Eclipse PHP debugger but fails to unmount the device if I run it as localhost.

 

this is the code

 

$umount = '/bin/umount -f '.$drive;
....
u_mount($umount, $error=512);
....

 

This is the called function

function u_mount($cmd, $error) {
    $output = array();
    $return_var = 0;
    $return_var = exec($cmd, $output, $return_var);
    $return_var = $return_var + $error;
   .... some checks 
}

 

In both cases (Eclipse and localhost) $return_var is always 0 but in localhost the umount is not executed and the device is still mounted

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks in advance

Gally

 

 

 

 

[trq]

You will need to make sure the user your server runs as has permissions to mount.

[gally]

it has permissions to mount since the mount command works correctly

[jasonrichardsmith]

it has permissions to mount since the mount command works correctly

 

Not really.  If you can mount stuff, your user name and root can mount that does not mean www-data can mount.

[jasonrichardsmith]

Now that I think about it, giving Apache server the right to mount and unmount is sorta dumb.  I recommend setting up a cron job.

[gally]

previous answer: I wasnt clear. My script can mount the device but cant umount it :-)

last answer: Can you help me? I really dont know how to do this

[jasonrichardsmith]

I am not sure if this will fix your problem or not. I never tried this:

usermod -G users www-data

 

Then add the user option to fstab

/dev/sda1        /foo/foo     ext3     user,noauto,umask=0002    0   0

 

/foo/foo needs to change to your mount point and ext3 may not be the file system type.

And /dev/sda1 may not be your device.