G'day jtzako,

"ssh: illegal option -- M"

This sounds like a pathing issue. You have code somewhere that's expecting ssh to have an M option; however, the version of ssh that's been found (using PHP) has no such option. Presumably, your command line version, does have an M option.

From your update:

"If I run the script manually using my own login it works. However if I try to sudo -su to the web server's username it never connects ..."

That's a bit more evidence in favour of a pathing problem. Here's the type of thing that I think's happening: 

$ which ssh
/opt/local/bin/ssh
$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011
$ echo $PATH
...:/opt/local/bin:...:/usr/bin:...
$ sudo su -
Password:
# which ssh
/usr/bin/ssh
# ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
# echo $PATH
...:/usr/bin:...

[download]
"... the error_log I see some errors ..."

This is a good place to look when troubleshooting; another is access_log (see Log Files). You might also consider temporarily changing the LogLevel for more verbose feedback.

See also: Environment Variables in Apache; Apache Module mod_ssl; Apache HTTP Server Documentation.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Execute a perl script from PHP? by kcott
in thread Execute a perl script from PHP? by jtzako

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