Question

I am doing a system maintenance script that is checking the status of various services
(memcached, sphinx, etc)

I would like to start the service from php script if it is down…

I managed to do it for memcache like this:

$command = 'memcached -d -m 800 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -u root start';
$dummy = system($command, $retval);

it is working GREAT…

now I’d like to do the same thing for SphinxSearch service

I tried

$command = 'service searchd start';

but got no result… and I read that I need sudo for this, so I did

$command = 'sudo service searchd start';

and even

$command = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/searchd';

but nothing worked.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try using

echo 'yourpassword' | sudo -S command