[PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? I tried the following: exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01'); or exec('SHUTDOWN /r'); I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01]. I never used this kind of functions before.

RE: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? I tried the following: exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01'); or exec('SHUTDOWN /r'); I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01]. I never used this kind of functions

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck
I don't want to restart windows locally, I want to restart it remotely. I need a php script that restarts the server. Is this possible or not? On 8/10/05, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? I tried the following:

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Cafer Şimşek
Hi, I think, Karl says that to how to shutdown the server. This is posible with rundll, or using Win32API functions. This is the detailed information about how to use Win32API functions in PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php So, also this is an information about ExitWindows()

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Joseph Oaks
First off, windows has no clue what a fork is, much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'. You can get a windows based version here for windows 2000, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317371sd=tech If you on windows xp or 2003 servers I'm not sure how this will work now that

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Karl-Heinz, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:05:32 PM, you wrote: KHCZ Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? KHCZ I tried the following: KHCZ exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01'); KHCZ or KHCZ exec('SHUTDOWN /r'); KHCZ I received the following warning message:

RE: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread tg-php
Could be that he's trying to use PHP to restart the server. Or could be using php via command line or through a system like GTK or Winbinder. It's worth noting that you should make sure you're restarting the machine you think you are, but the question still remains... is this possible and

Re[2]: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Joseph, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:26:05 PM, you wrote: JO First off, windows has no clue what a fork is, A fork is several different things, and there's no reason why Windows cannot implement a fork via its standard APIs. JO much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'. -r = Shutdown

RE: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread George Pitcher
to PHP), look at VNC. George -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 August 2005 3:09 pm To: Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Restarting windows from php [snip] Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows

[PHP] Re: Re[2]:[PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Joseph Oaks
Richard, thanks for the pointer on the shutdown command, nice to see them implement that in 2k3 and XP, I don't use them on a regular base and sure don't use them in server environment. As for the fork, windows can't preform a fork of a process. There are API's out there that can do this for

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Stut
Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote: Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? I tried the following: exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01'); or exec('SHUTDOWN /r'); I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01]. There are a

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:45 am, Richard Davey wrote: Hello Joseph, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:26:05 PM, you wrote: JO much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'. -r = Shutdown with restart -t = Set the timeout for shutdown (xx seconds) 01 = The timeout value Open a command prompt,

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:05 am, Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote: Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? You could send it the various hacks such as Ping of Death ranging up to current Microsoft Windows bugs from any remote computers :-) I tried the following:

Re[4]: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Richard, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 9:40:02 PM, you wrote: RL I dunno if YOUR Windows box has some cygwin thingie or something RL that makes shutdown be a real command, or if it's just a RL versioning issue, but the single test platform I had available RL pretty much had no shutdown

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Tyler Kiley
I never used this kind of functions before. What's wrong? In IIS for Execute Permissions I have Scripts and Executables. What permissions should I set for the Internet Guest Account? Or something else caused the problem, not the permissions? Please help me.:) On windows, php uses cmd.exe to

Re: [PHP] Restarting windows from php

2005-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:05 am, Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote: Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script? ... SSL, password protected, maybe even have the script record a time-stamp when it's run, and refuse to run itself more often than