RE: [PHP] How to access a program outside of PHP?

> >1) When I echo out $szPipe I get "Resource id #2". > > > Sorry i was thinking of backticks. btw have you tried it ? > (backticks) Backticks? Is this a PHP API function, I can't find it? That's the thing here I haven't been able to get things to work and I have no clue what I should use, exec(), system(), popen(), etc. gs just needs to be run, I do not require any output back from it other than if I can determine if it's been ran or not (true/false). > >3)Yes I tried running gs in the console as root works fine > and as myself and > >that works fine. The user is www that runs httpd. How could > I test to see if > >www has access? To my understanding such accounts can not be > used to log in > >with. I have chown the /htdocs/ to be www:wwww. > > > can't login yes. but you can try: sudo -u www /htdocs/gs Okay, tried that and yes it worked. Any more ideas? Is there any logs I could look at to find out more, I've looked around but haven't found anything as of yet.