Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:13:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Doing a reboot from a CGI script? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980305070901.15655E-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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Hi I'm busy writing a set of scripts to make the management of a FreeBSD box easier (basically provide a WWW interface to manage UUCP, Squid, etc). One of the capabilities I want to build in is the ability to reboot the machine by pressing a button on a HTML page. I've tried doing this by running '/sbin/reboot' from the cgi-bin script (which is written in perl), but all that happens is that all processes are killed, and the reboot process stops there. I would imagine that somehow this means that the through killing the httpd process, the cgi-bin script and thus the reboot process have died. This seems to happen even if I fork a process from the cgi-bin script. Is there any way to get around this? Has anyone tried this before? Thanks for any info, Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Computers Networks Reds Greens Justice Peace Beer Africa pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Support the SAMWU 50 litres campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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