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From: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forcing an immediate reboot
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:51:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4350A6D5.7010304@perkel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900510142347y41ca98b1gf7172898d2bdc97a@mail.gmail.com>



Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:

>On 10/15/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-15  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15  1:46 Forcing an immediate reboot Marc Perkel
2005-10-15  1:50 ` Lee Revell
2005-10-15  6:47   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-15  6:51     ` Marc Perkel [this message]
2005-10-15  7:48   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-15  7:56     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-15  8:16       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-16  0:10         ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-10-15 13:23     ` documentation? (i learned something today ;-) ) Damir Perisa
2005-10-15 13:40       ` Benoit Boissinot
2005-10-15 14:52         ` Documentation/files somewhere online? Damir Perisa
2005-10-15 15:02           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-10-15 15:13             ` Michael Krufky
2005-10-15 23:18               ` Documentation/files online: available at git in webinterface Damir Perisa
2005-10-15 14:29     ` Forcing an immediate reboot Marc Perkel
2005-10-15  1:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-15  2:24 ` Danny ter Haar
2005-10-15  6:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-10-15  6:50   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-15 10:24 ` Denis Vlasenko

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