Can you edit php.ini?
setting open_basedir to “.” would work but that is ghetto.
Its not a permissions problem…
Those programs are only allowed to run from certain locations.
If you can’t edit php.ini or httpd.conf I don’t know where open_basedir is set I assume php.ini…Just get the admin to add those other paths.
/usr/sbin/
/usr/X11R6/bin/
/usr/bin