[PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Fahad javed
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 script worked fine if

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

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 script

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 developing a webservice in PHP/Linux where I need

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 clues