RE: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Per Jessen
Andrés Robinet wrote: > 2 - Write or find a daemon capable of doing what you are trying to do > (execute commands on demand) but using some authentication model, so > that you can communicate with the daemon using a local socket (and > don't open the backdoor through TCP/IP). I don't have any clue

RE: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Andrés Robinet
> -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 12:04 AM > To: Fahad javed > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice > > Fahad javed wrote: > > I am develo

Re: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Chris
Fahad javed wrote: I am developing a webservice in PHP/Linux where I need to kill a process. I tried using exec("kill ".$pid); and exec("kill -KILL ".$pid); but the return value was always 1 and the process still remained. I wrote up a small shell script and have exec run that script. The scri

Re: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:56 +0500, Fahad javed wrote: > I still think the problem is access rights. question is how to solve it. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > Yes it is access rights. You will probably have to add PHP to the root or wheel group as a user or something insane like t