problem with 'yes' on cpanel killacct script

has anyone come across the following problem before?
when i try to terminate an account using whm it uses the killacct script, which runs the following and seems to fall on an infinite look somehow -

system("yes | /usr/bin/mysqladmin drop $db 2>/dev/null");

the $db variable is taken from a for loop.

it does what its suppose to do without any problems. only it doesnt die out in the end and i have to kill it manually, so terminating a user becomes more then just a click.

i also tried running the yes piped command manually and that works just fine.

if anyone could point me on the right direction on this it would be much appreciated.

thanks

nayeem
www.bigsiteofhosting.com

maybe it keeps the stdin/stdout descriptors open.

try this:

system("yes | /usr/bin/mysqladmin drop $db </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null");

what does this "yes" program do? just output "yes"?
then you better use:

system("/bin/sh -c 'echo yes|/usr/bin......'");

for ease of use you can put the command into a script file. start it as:
system("/usr/bin/mysqldroptable.sh </dev/null 2>&1 >/dev/null")

(you better do this, i am not sure about the behaviour if you supply a input pipe AND input redirection; and: maybe you have to switch "2>&1 >/dev/null" against ">/dev/null 2>&1", the order does matter)