Do you know a way to run a php script from a telnet session ? or, better, is there a way to run a php script from the web under the root priviledges ?

Thank you
NHosting.

There is, but its not advisable.

any suggest ?
i know that it is not advisable but I'm doing some test on my own linux server.
I'm doing some install program and i need, for example, to permit to chown a file or chmod some files and so on. I know that i can do that via perl with a cron program (the cron program run under root) but i like php and i prefer to do it via a simple click (in real time).

Thank you
NHosting

compile curl and then execute the script via apache with php compiled as a module.

means you can do this:

/usr/bin/curl http://www.yourdomain.com/script.php

Much safer than running php as a cgi.

regards,

Simon