Re: Forcing an immediate reboot

[Marc Perkel]

Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:

> 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.
>  

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.
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