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From: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Doing a reboot from a CGI script?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980305070901.15655E-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za> from Peter van Heusden at "Mar 5, 98 07:13:05 am"
To: pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za (Peter van Heusden)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:21:51 +0200 (SAT)
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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?
> 

we do something similar by calling a shell script from a tcl
script  .... we use shutdown instead of reboot and it works fine ...

#!/bin/sh
fn=$1
shift
(/bin/sleep 2; /sbin/shutdown $* now > $fn 2>1 ) &


Hope this helps

Reinier

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