[ale] Rebooting remotely without a usable /

Adric Net adric at adric.net
Mon Sep 21 11:36:05 EDT 2009


Hi all,

If the kernel has sysreq, you should be able to trigger it with cat  
into proc.
You use the same key sequences for it that you would with the SysReq  
keystrokes:

echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger #etc

RH doc: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Reference_Guide/s2-proc-sysrq-trigger.html
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

hth,
adric

On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> ...everybody's a comedian....
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> what does "telinit 6" do?
>>
>> It tells init to switch to runlevel six, which is defined by /etc/ 
>> inittab.
>>
>> I think it has a manpage, but I'm having trouble logging into Linux
>> right now (!)
>>
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