[PHP] Running external programs

Hi:   I´m using PHP4 on IIS 5 on Windows 2000 Server and it works fine. The Microsoft NNTP Service from IIS 5 can be managed from command shell with commands like this bellow:   cscript d:\\temp\\rgroup.vbs -t a -g new.group.01 And it works also fine in my system.     But, when I try to run

[PHP] Program execution functions doesn´t work in my system

Hi   In the PHP manual there are some program execution functions like passthru(), exec() and system(). I´ve got PHP4 installed on IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Server, and it works fine.   I tried with a very simple script like the following:   $commandstring = "cmd"; passthru($command