Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

[Brian]

It has been awhile since I had this problem, but I recall
	shutdown -r -n now
doing the job.

	-- Brian

On Friday 10 August 2001 05:19 pm, Axel Thimm wrote:
> How can I reboot a stuck machine remotely, when there are
> uninterruptable processes arround? shutdown -r, reboot [-n] [-f],
> telinit 6 do not give the intended results. Localy I can use
> Alt-SysRq-S/U/B, but what if I still have a remote ssh connection and
> don't want to have to get to the machines location?
>
> Of course the real problem are the processes themselves, but being able
> to revive a machine is also nice ;)
>
> Regards, Axel.