Maybe at this point it would be good to know that the main program is a CGI, therefore, the fact that I can write a simple perl script to run this command wil work when I run it from the command line, but wont when I run that same script from the CGI. (however, if I run a system call in the CGI for a command, like for instance, cat, ir works fine.
 
Does this help at all?
 
- Nick