[ale] Rebooting remotely without a usable /

[adric at adric.net (Adric Net)]

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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