Emergency!

[jd102684]

Ok... Quick!

I was writing a mySQL / php script to send out an email to everyone in a database. I was the only person in the database at the time of my first "test". Somehow, I got caught in an infinite loop, and am receiving about 80 emails every 5 seconds. The whole site went down, and I cant log in to ftp or any of the mySQL database stuff... claims my login is incorrect (which I know is not). Will this thing eventually stop on its own?

[jd102684]

ok... emails have stopped coming now. phew. site is down though... anyone know if it should be back up soon? emails stopped coming and that seems like a good sign.

please respond, someone! ( after you are done laughing your head off at me, that is )

[jansky]

why not ask your hosting company?? i think they have the answer

[lozza1978]

Your hosting company proberly thought they were under spam attack and shut your account down,

Get in touch, and see what they have to say,

[LoganK]

Hint: if you're caught in an infinite loop, pressing "Esc" (or "Stop") will stop your browser from receiving any more code, which should stop the webserver from sending more code, which should stop PHP from processing more code. 🙂

Also, PHP scripts have a built-in execution time-limit of 30 seconds (anyone know if this has changed in recent versions? I'm using 4.3)

[Drakla]

Yup, 30 seconds standard. On my server during the morning rush that's 750 emails, of course that script has a max execution time of 8 hours and [man]ignore_user_abort/man so it's hit the deck time if you kick off that baby by mistake - that's why I make the admin type in his password before it sends.

[LoganK]

Ok, thanks for verifying that for me.

750 emails? Wow.