[Mr. Man]

Is it possible to refresh admin.cfg from outside of the game? To this day, whenever I update people with donor rank on my server, I have to physically log into the server and execute /admin -> Refresh admin.cfg

Is there an easier way to do this? (Perhaps with SSH or whatnotabob)?

[hamilton5]

unless you want to restart the server.. sm_reloadadmins from a console.

[ozgaming]

Lot of game panels where you change settings have rcon so could do it from there. Even sourcebans if you use it

[ecca]

As he uses admins.cfg he's probably not using sourcebans neither MySQL.

For your question SSH would be fine by just executing rcon sm_reloadadmins which will regenerate the admin cache. Also for your information the admin cache is cleared every mapchange by default.

[Dr. McKay]

If you want to use PHP, here's a basic class that you can use to send rcon commands to your server. http://fremnet.net/article/199/source-rcon-class