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Maybe there's a good reason not to call this function from PHP. The permissions for halt on many machines might rest only with the super user. PHP usually doesn't (and shouldn't) run as super user on the server.
Also, whomever the apache server is running as, give that user sudo priveledge for halt and then try your code running sudo halt. I'm not sure if it'll work, but its a thought.
Last edited by musicman_ace; 07-31-2006 at 07:56 AM.
Without knowing your system configuration we're only going to guess why it doesn't work. You haven't even given any error messages (if any) or how PHP is set up in your system. We don't even know whether you're calling this from the command line... I'm assuming you are.
I have Apache/2.0.55 and PHP/5.1.2 on an Ubuntu Server 6.06. I just want to create a php script with which i want to shutdown the server via my browser.
i've created test.php
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