Re: reboot without forking

From: Andrew McNaughton (andrew_at_scoop.co.nz)
Date: 08/21/04

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    Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 06:14:00 +1200 (NZST)
To: Simon <simon@optinet.com>

    I'm currently not sure why I'm running into problems. I've been playing
    with resource limits, and may have solved the problem already - it only
    turns up every other month or so. Meanwhile I may be constraining the
    system more than it needs to be constrained. Being able to recover from a
    mistake seems like an important pre-requisite to loosening up constraints
    a bit.

    If there's any good documents out there on strategies for determining good
    resource limits, that would be helpful.

    Andrew McNaughton

    On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Simon wrote:

    > Why are you running out of resources? have you considered enforcing limits
    > so the problem doesn't arise to begin with?
    >
    > -Simon
    >
    > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:58:05 +1200 (NZST), Andrew McNaughton wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> 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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