reboot without forking

Andrew McNaughton andrew at scoop.co.nz
Sat Aug 21 06:58:08 PDT 2004


Is there some sort of server I can run so that I can reboot a server in a 
situation where there are not available resources for forking?

Best option I've got at present is to leave a ssh session running with a 
root shell.  Seems I can get a reboot using `exec reboot` even when I 
can't fork.

Andrew

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