[LUG] Running programs that require a terminal - without one.

[jody salt <jody_leigh_salt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

 

Is there anyway on linux of running programs require a terminal - without one?

 

I'm trying to run lame - from a system("command here") function in php, to resample mp3s, because I want my website users mp3s to be automatically resampled as they upload them.

 

The lame command works fine from the command line - but not from a standard system("command here") function even with absolute paths.

 

It does seems a bit daft to have program like lame doesn't have this ability.

 

Is there a command that goes something like:

 

pseudo_terminal [your command]

 

??

 

I've checked lame's documentation - and I can't see any flags that I can set to get around it.

 

From what I can gather PHP 5 does have the ability to emulate terminals via the proc_open() command. However I don't want to make my software PHP 5 dependant.

 

Any ideas??

 

Cheers

 

Jody

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