Remote reboot possible ?

[civ1492]

Hi,

im wondering if there is a tool that would remotly reboot a hard locked pc ?

[cloverm]

Well, if it's hard locked, and cannot establish any network connection with it, then there's no way. Somebody has to hit the reset button.

[civ1492]

[quote author=cloverm link=board=1;threadid=4873;start=0#48566 date=1031318824]
Well, if it's hard locked, and cannot establish any network connection with it, then there's no way. Somebody has to hit the reset button.
[/quote]

true but it can establish network connections .. i mean its pingable and would react to sysrq .. anyway i can always reset it next week ..

[cloverm]

Can you ssh to it? Is webmin running on it?

[civ1492]

[quote author=cloverm link=board=1;threadid=4873;start=0#48569 date=1031319224]
Can you ssh to it? Is webmin running on it?
[/quote]

nope thats the strange thing - everything works for a while and after a month or 2 it just locks up all network connections .. i cant ssh in but i establish an ssh connection and then it times out ..

[Schotty]

well, AFAIK, without ssh/telnet/rlogin or whatever, you cannot do a remote reboot. Not without some gadget that takes a phone call and makes a robot push the reset button. Which of course would be cool...

[Bartman]

[quote author=GOP Schotty link=board=1;threadid=4873;start=0#48574 date=1031324857]
well, AFAIK, without ssh/telnet/rlogin or whatever, you cannot do a remote reboot. Not without some gadget that takes a phone call and makes a robot push the reset button. Which of course would be cool...
[/quote]

rofl
I can totally imagine that

[Schotty]

Or sharks with lasers.

[pam]

What, you mean I'm the only one with a dialup robot arm poised over his reset button?
You guys are just so backwards
Seriously though, you could put a script together that will reboot the machine (gracefully) and run it as a cron job at weekly (or whatever) intervals.

[civ1492]

[quote author=pam link=board=1;threadid=4873;start=0#48602 date=1031346762]
Seriously though, you could put a script together that will reboot the machine (gracefully) and run it as a cron job at weekly (or whatever) intervals.
[/quote]

good idea .. but sometime i need to know why it just locks up