I want to create a page where I enter an IP address then exec() to run whois and then display the output. I like to do this in PHP 5. This is what I try: $arg = trim($_GET[ip]); // get IP address echo "<pre><br>ARIN:<br>"; $out = "/home/website/work/" . $arg . ".txt" ; $cmd = "whois -h whois.arin.net " .$arg . " >" . $out ; exec ( $cmd ); include ( $out ); echo "</pre>"; The output file is created but no content. The directory is chmod'ed to 777... The command works fine from the command line. Any ideas? Gerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx