[shammancer]

Hello everyone. I am looking for a way to get a task manager for my server. I know this would be extremely insecure normally however I am running my server only on a LAN no one would have access to it.

I am not afraid of making my own however I need help on where to start.

The functionality I want to include is:

• List of programs running
  
• List of daemons running
  
• Being able to force close open programs
  
• Being able to restart my server

My favoured language is PHP, I could live with Ruby or Python if needed.

[no2pencil]

Assuming this is for a windows server, I would suggest something as simple as using php to touch active flags, & have the shell issue net start/net stop to reflect those changes to the server.

I'm not aware of any such service in existence, as most admins would simply connect over a shared desktop environment & manually handle the services.

[shammancer]

Actually it is for Ubuntu and I am trying to do it like this because I want to do it from my phone.

[no2pencil]

I would again use the same procedure, except with the shell you can use ps to check for running processes & report this via the web interface. Then issue the correct stop/start either through /etc/rc.d or just kill the process id with dash nine.

[shammancer]

May you give me the basic PHP system call?

[no2pencil]

I wouldn't use php system calls. I would write a shell process to create flag files that report if a service is running or not. Then have php open those flag files to determine if the service is running or not running & report this via the website. Then when you press a button to stop a service, for example, create a stop flag file. The shell process (via a crontab) sees the newly created stop request, stops the service, & updates the flag file.

[shammancer]

Awesome thanks for the explanation. I will start on it soon.