Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751098AbVJOGvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:51:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751099AbVJOGvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:51:08 -0400 Received: from 10.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.10]:38786 "EHLO newton.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbVJOGvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4350A6D5.7010304@perkel.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:51:01 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coywolf Qi Hunt CC: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Forcing an immediate reboot References: <43505F86.1050701@perkel.com> <1129341050.23895.12.camel@mindpipe> <2cd57c900510142347y41ca98b1gf7172898d2bdc97a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900510142347y41ca98b1gf7172898d2bdc97a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamfilter-host: newton.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com" X-Mail-from: marc@perkel.com X-Sender-host-address: 204.95.16.61 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 36 Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: >On 10/15/05, Lee Revell wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >> >>>Is there any way to force an immediate reboot as if to push the reset >>>button in software? Got a remote server that i need to reboot and >>>shutdown isn't working. >>> >>> >>If it has Oopsed, and the "reboot" command does not work, then all bets >>are off - kernel memory has probably been corrupted. >> >>Get one of those powerstrips that you can telnet into and power cycle >>things remotely. >> >> >> > >use reboot on panic. > > But it didn't panic. It was still running - filtering spam. But reboot wouldn't work and I couldn't kill anything that was running. So it never paniced. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/