From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adrian C." Subject: Re: forcing a reboot Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:45:47 +0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <60a74689041022034528df2193@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041022102923.GA1866@fede2.tumsan.fi> Reply-To: "Adrian C." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041022102923.GA1866@fede2.tumsan.fi> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: urgrue Cc: admin You could try a killall -9 zombie_process_name before reboot. man reboot has no force reboot option that i can see. --Adrian. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:29:23 +0300, urgrue wrote: > is there a way to force an instant reboot? in some cases "reboot" > doesnt work, as it seems to do many things before actually initiating a > phsyical reset, like shutting down processes. ive now run into the > situation a few times where zombie processes or module problems can > prevent "reboot" from completing its task. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >