hello; I am trying to write a script to do some auto configuration of my webserver. Part of the process involves copying some configuration files from other places on the server to a working directory where they can be modified. I am running freeBSD 6.0, Apache 2.2.3, php 5.1.5 I can't seem to get the exec() command to work. I have an external shell script called 'copy' that takes care of getting files. script is currently set to mode 777 when run from the shell it works perfectly. however, in the php script echo exec('whoami'); exec('/path/to/copy'); the only return is 'www' (the username correctly returned from whoami) also files aren't changed. any suggestions, pointers, log files to check would be appreciated as I have spent several hours on google, in manuals, etc. haven't tried the ougi board, but that's about it ;-) tia Ray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php