Help with passthru() or exec()

[Illuminati]

I am trying to make a website where I can restart an application. I can make it terminate the app but it hangs when trying to restart it.

 

the website calls the function this way:

 

#####################
PHP
#####################
<?php
if (isset($_POST["kill_server"])){
  kill_server();
  echo "<img src=./images/ok.gif> El server esta siendo apagado. Por favor espere 1 minuto!";
} elseif (isset($_POST["init_server"])){
  init_server();
  echo "<img src=./images/ok.gif> El server esta siendo iniciado. Por favor espere 3 minutos!";
}
?>

#####################
HTML
#####################
<form action="" method="post" name="kill_server" id="restart_server">
  <input type="submit" name="kill_server" value="Kill Server">
</form>
<form action="" method="post" name="init_server" id="restart_server">
  <input type="submit" name="init_server" value="Init Server">
</form>

The functions being called are these:

 

<?php
function kill_server (){
    require("includes/log_functions.php");
    $logfile = "logs/server_kill.php";
    writelog::writelog_server_kill($logfile);
    passthru("c:\scripts\kill.bat");

}
function init_server (){
    require("includes/log_functions.php");
    $logfile = "logs/server_init.php";
    writelog::writelog_server_init($logfile);
    passthru("notepad");

}
?>

 

The first function works just fine, but the second one hangs. The batch file just calls for notepad.exe so it's nothing big.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Illuminati]

I also tried to make a batch file and make the second function call it just like the first function calls kill.bat, the result was the same, it hangs.

[Illuminati]

anyone?