Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:50:32 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: Forcing an immediate reboot |
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On 10/15/05, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:46:46PM -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 you can telnet it, simply use this : > > # echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq > # echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger > > It's dirty and you'll have an fsck. But it will nearly always work.
You may avoid the fsck by:
# echo s >/proc/sysrq-trigger # echo u >/proc/sysrq-trigger
> I use it a lot in local on distros on which the shutdown process is > as long as the boot process (you know, the ones which display lots > of 'OK' or wait indefinitely for some dead services to stop, when > you really want them to reboot quickly). -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - 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/
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