[ale] Rebooting remotely without a usable /

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 09:46 -0400, Matt Rideout wrote:

> Good thinking! It's running 64-bit Intel Xeon MP 3.66GHz CPUs. Nothing 
> located on the disk that isn't already loaded into RAM is usable, so 
> compiling on the box isn't an option. I wouldn't be able to scp a binary 
> over, or execute the commands to mount a memory filesystem in the 
> traditional sense either, since those would access files on the drive. 
> Would there be anyway to make that syscall purely from memory?

OH!

Do you use devfs, udev, or /dev/shm?  You can store files there and
execute them!

	--- Mike

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