Re: Rebooting

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:19:44PM +0200, Dave Raven wrote: : : I need to reboot a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE : computer using php + apache. I have a : small wrapper which runs the reboot : command as root, but it freezes half way : through and the box hangs. : : I'm thinking that the reboot process is : killing apache, and in effect killing itself. : How might I get around this? How about launching a shell script that reboots the server as its own process? For example, make a script at /etc/shutdown containing this: #!/bin/sh /sbin/reboot then in your PHP script do something like: <?php exec('/usr/bin/nohup /etc/shutdown 1>/dev/null/ 2>&1 &'); ?> -- Eugene Lee eugene@fsck.net