Can a normal member (not an admin) of a shared webserver with (limited) SSH access run, monitor and stop a PHP script through SSH? If so, how would all three actions be done by the user?
I tried to use the command "top", but it only listed actual top level processes, not PHP scripts. I have also managed to start a PHP script using the commands provided in this SO question. But what about termination and monitoring of the currently running PHP scripts?
AFAIK you can not as the script runs under different user than the one you can log into via SSH.
If you are running the php script from the console like so:
php myscript.php
Then you should be able to kill the process:
killall php
You should probably use top to find the pid and then use kill in place of killall
Re: ps not showing php processes
Keep in mind that a lot of hosts have a grid running and php processes are running on a different machine altogether. Depending on the configurations, these processes may never be visible to you via shell. You may have better luck with php scripts :)