davetechfreak

Hi guys, I am new here, and I am a bit stuck with doing something unusual. I want to create a script that can turn on a program (dynamips and dynagen). So far, I have tried 'exec' and 'shell_exec'. Soon I realized that apache runs the commands as 'www-data' user (apache2 in ubuntu) and it's very limited on what you can execute. Is there any way to do that at all? What would be the best practice? I am not concerned about security as this is not a production environment... Thanks