[geeklog-devel] Re: pair Networks contact

[Pat F]

I'll admit that I know sqat about pear, but I believe that we have it
installed on every server:

root at qs457# which pear
/usr/local/bin/pear
root at qs457#


Maybe your script just needs to reference pear by its full path on the
server?



On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Duh...a light just went off in my head.
>
> Archive/Tar.php is a PEAR moduels (http://pear.php.net).  Do you folks
> install PEAR on your servers?  We need to figure this out but Tar.php is
> the package that uncompresses Geeklog (i.e. we don't force your server to
> have tar installed).
>
> Jason, should we have a little config option at the top of the file that
> let's ISP's point the script to their local copy of pear?  I'd even say we
> should first issue exec(`which tar`); and use the output if any to run
> tar, otherwise force them to get a copy of Tar.php.
>
> this is a bit sticky, huh?  Jason, I'll refer to you for an exact
> solution.
>
> --Tony