Just out of interest, how is the restart going to authenticate itself to get up and running? I used to do something like this between two servers - but the were Macs and I was using Frontier and it did work, but not without the odd mishap. If you just want to do it remotely (without recourse to PHP), look at VNC. George > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 10 August 2005 3:09 pm > To: Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Restarting windows from php > > > [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 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.:) > [/snip] > > Everyone, repeat after me...... > > PHP is server-side, there's no place like home, > PHP is server-side, there's no place like home, > PHP is server-side, there's no place like home...... > > If you are trying to restart Windows, locally, you have to use something > client-side to affect that. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
