Re: Forcing an immediate reboot

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt
Date: Sat Oct 15 2005 - 01:49:44 EST


On 10/15/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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