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DateFri, 14 Oct 2005 23:51:01 -0700
FromMarc Perkel <>
SubjectRe: Forcing an immediate reboot

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.
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