Automatic Reboot

scottpioso · 12-08-2003, 02:55 PM

Hi,

I am trying to schedule my Linux server to automatically reboot at a specific time of day. I'm trying to find where the command resides that tells the machine to reboot. I'm just going to shove this command into CRON and let it run at specific times. However, as I just said, I don't know where to find the command. Does someone know where it is? Thank you.

Tino27 · 12-08-2003, 03:01 PM

Issuing "init 6" as the root user forces a reboot of the machine.

scottpioso · 12-08-2003, 03:07 PM

Thanks Tino,

That worked. So, now if I want to schedule this, I can just feed that command into CRON, would you concur?

Tinkster · 12-08-2003, 03:08 PM

Alternatives:

reboot

shutdown -r -t 1 now

Cheers,
Tink

scottpioso · 12-08-2003, 03:25 PM

Hi guys,

Well, something very interesting just happened. I use GAIM instant messenger and once I issued the init 6 command, gaim won't run anymore. Weird, huh?

Tino27 · 12-08-2003, 03:25 PM

Not tried it, but I would assume so. You can also try the alternatives that Tinkster suggested if the "init" command doesn't work.

Tino27 · 12-08-2003, 03:26 PM

Meaning Gaim won't load or Gaim will load but not connect?

scottpioso · 12-08-2003, 03:30 PM

neither.

I even uninstalled Gaim and reinstalled it and the same problem persists.

Tino27 · 12-08-2003, 03:44 PM

My guess would be that Gaim didn't shut down properly when you forced a reboot. It could be a latent setting inside your .gaim or .gaimrc directory (which should be inside your home directory).

Try starting gaim from the CLI. It may give you some additional error information when it fails to load properly.

scottpioso · 12-08-2003, 04:38 PM

Well, I got it now, but my brain has stopped functioning. I'm using KDE, where the heck do I look to see running processes? I think I'll write a short bash script to kill gaim before rebooting and I can't seem to remember where to look to see all of the running processes.

Tino27 · 12-08-2003, 08:01 PM

In KDE you would use KDE System Guard. You could also run "top" from the CLI.

scottpioso · 12-10-2003, 04:18 PM

Hey Tink,

The reboot command is by far the easiest way to do it. Now, to shove this into cron to run, I am stuck again. (You're going to be mad now, I'm sure

) If I want this to run everyday at say 5 PM, can I just dump the command into crontab as it is? ie, where the command line has to be entered, just putting "reboot" there will not do it. So, how would the command have to be formatted there? Would I need to full path to the command listed there?