Escapeshellcmd() Exec()

[BigUglyTroll]

are escapeshellcmd() and exec() enabled, or can we enable these for our accounts using php.ini

[virtvir5]

The PHP escapeshellcmd() function merely escapes any characters in a string that might be used to trick a shell command into executing arbitrary commands. The PHP exec() function works fine where the server's executable files themselves have been granted the necessary permissions -- notably, for example, for things like ImageMagick and other executable files that are located in the /user/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/ folders.

No need for any special php.ini modifications.

[dmolavi]

This is dredging up an old topic, but I have a cronjob that runs every 15 minutes to check to see if a remote repository has been updated, and if so, it is supposed to trigger two additional php scripts to execute via the "exec" command. The code is like this:
exec('php '.getcwd().' /MYFILE.php');

However, it results in a hung process and loads of "unable to fork" errors in the error log.

I can run the secondary scripts via http or CLI with no issue, so i'm not sure what the problem is.

Does anyone have any tips/suggestions?