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Saturday, February 9, 2008

HowTo: Emergency Reboot a Remote Machine

http://portal.itauth.com/2007/10/29/linux-howto-emergency-reboot-remote-machine

The first step is to enable the SysRq system, if it's disabled:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

Now you can reboot (instantly, be forewarned) if the machine is hung:

echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

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