If I run this PHP script: <?php echo '<pre>'; echo exec('whoami'); echo '</pre>'; ?> from the web, the output is <pre></pre>and from the command line running as the apache user(webuser), the output is. Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 <pre></pre>But if I run from the command line as root, the output is: Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 <pre>root</pre>and from the command line as a user in the root group, the output is: Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 <pre>jimpoz</pre>Safe mode is turned off. As webuser (or any non-root-group user), no shell commands work. Not echo, not ls, not whoami, not touch. And no shell functions work: no exec(), no passthru(), no shell_exec(), no backticks. Every command I'm trying to run is world-readable and world-executable. If I turn safe mode on, it gives me a "safe mode is on" warning only about lines that call shell_exec(), and not for exec() or any of the others. Other than that, it doesn't hang or give any kind of error or anything when it comes to a shell function call; apparently it just ignores them. Anyone know what's wrong? I've been staring at this thing for three days and have come up empty. Thanks, Jim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php