Using a shared hosting facility, so don't have easy access to Telnet etc.
I want to be able to start a job (from an interactive web page) and then have a PHP4 script execute (if the user keeps the page open or not).... if a user returns later the script will be writing an update file,so they will be able to query process.
From an admin perspective, I'd like to be able to identify the running threads (again from an interactive PHP page) and kill if one goes wandering off on it's own...
Also, I'd like to be able to set a PHP4 page that runs automatically (say) every hour - again optionally turned off/on from an interactive interface.
Is there a way to manage cron jobs from a php page (and can a cron job execute a PHP4 script ?)
Aaargh... probably sounds very stooopid... I'm a windows user to exec(....cmd) would be easy, but this server is RedHat !
