Perl Page To Maintain a game server?!?

i just bought a web server that runs on linux and decided to run a Counterstrike game server off of it, however if i wanna update the server and it needs to be restarted, i have to login to SSH and type a load of stuff which i dont even know what any of it means, so could someone give me some advice/help on creating a web page that restarts/quits/starts the server

i've been told it can be done using perl ... but do i know anything bout perl? ... NO

any help will be appreciated greatly

thx

also some of the main things that the server is running are here

Apache
Proftpd
Bind
SSH
Real Server
ShoutCast Server
Half-Life: Counter-Strike Server

Well I don't know about stoping and restarting a game server, but if you wanted to restart Apache web server you'd do something like.

Code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

`/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful`;

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basically whatever is enclosed within the `` (these are back ticks not single quotes' ')
is run on the command line, so you could put together a little perl script
such as:-

Code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

`stop my server`;
`start my server`;
print "all done...lets have more fun";

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To add this functionality to a web page is a little more involved and not recommended unless the page is password protected otherwise anyone could stop and start your server.
google for htaccess to learn about password protecting websites.

Anything else gis a shout !