Remote console

[Ravine]

Hello!

I should have asked this about 5 years ago, but it's better late than never: what do you use to control the server from outside (linux)?

I'm currently using a php script, which feeds the screen-session to 'say' things to the console, which handled by the nwnx-chat to communicate the server and players. This isn't bad, except when no player in the server (in that case, 'saying' to the console is useless).
My other 'fear' is about this topic:
http://www.nwnx.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1716
Probably(?) this cause the hangs on my server (CPU at 99%) about once or two times a week, which freaks me out. So i want to 'quiet' the nwnconsole, which breaks the communication from outside.
I used to used the sql to receive commands (and probably i'm gonna do that again if there is no better idea), but in that case i had to scan the sql for new commands in every second at least. From nwscript, that's not so nice.
A 'reversed' mnx plugin would be nice, which receives data...or something.

Any idea?
thx

[Ravine]

I ended up solving it with nwnx_system's FileRead and FileDelete. I hope it's faster than calling mysql in every 0.5 sec.