Execing a command in safe mode

Hi, I need to execute a command on my web host's machine. However they have safe mode enabled. PHP Version 4.0.3pl1 runs as a module on Apache. From php.ini ; Safe Mode safe_mode = On safe_mode_exec_dir = /etc/php4/execdir Will a symlink located in safe_mode_exec_dir that points to the actual program be enough, or should the actual program I want to run itself be installed there? I need to confirm this before I make an admin request. Any other ideas for running a program in safe mode? I only need to return the results of a process execution. I don't need to write to it. As in printing say the output of ls -al. The return code of exec(), system() etc., is 126 with safe mode on. Is 126 a PHP status code or is it returned by Linux? Where can I find a list of error code to error code meaning mapping? -Srini -- http://www.sriniram.com http://symonds.net/~sriniram