If i want to access a program externally with apache using the PHP system() function, do the program and the file it manipulates need to be owned by the user that apache references in the httpd.conf file?
No but the web server user has to have execute permission on the file you're executing.
Thanks.
I found that the userID that the server was using did not belong to the root group. Once I changed it with usermod, the system call worked...
Jim
