I am writing a php website for users to edit a global whitelist for Spam
Assassin - all is going fairly well considering I hadn't ever used php until
a couple of days ago. My problem is I need to restart AMAVISD-NEW after the
user saves the changes. I've acheived this using SUDO and giving the
www-data users the rights to SUDO amavisd-new. My problem is simply a user
friendlyness issue - below is the code I'm running -
if(isset($_POST["SAVE"]))
{
file_put_contents("/etc/spamassassin/whitelist.cf", $_SESSION[whitelist]);
$_SESSION[count]=0;
echo "Restarting the service.........</A></P>";
exec('sudo /usr/sbin/amavisd-new reload');
echo "Service was restarted...... Returning to the main page.";
sleep(4)
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=index.php">';
}
The problem is that the Restarting the Service dialogue doesn't get
displayed until AFTER the Service Restarts even though it appears before the
shell_exec command. I've tried exec and passthru and its always the same - I
want it to display the "Service was restarted" - wait for 4 seconds and then
redirect to the main page. Instead nothing happens on screen for the browser
user until the service has restarted at which point they are returned to
index.php - its as if the exec and the sleep and the refresh to index.php
are all kind of running concurently.
Can someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong - or shed light on how I
should do this.
Thanks,
Matt
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
