Hi all;
My linux machine died tonight, I can still ping it, but I THINK it
ran out of Memory. I am not able to access SSH at all, httpd, ftp is down as well. I was wondering if there is any way to reboot the box remotely since I can still ping it? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Matt

Unless you can get a shell opened (telnet, SSH, etc) I doubt it. I could be wrong, if you have some other service (webmin?) that can reboot the system remotely.

lol, I can't get anything I do have webmin installed, but I don't keep it activated.. DOH! I know RHN used to have a 'schedule reboot' option, but I can't find that anywhere..

Any suggestions? I know the RHN could reboot your CPU, but I don't see the option to reboot from the rhn website anymore Of course, right when I need it, lol.. Fixing to drive 2 hours to the west to get it back up.. arghhhhhhh.. lol road trip..

Am I the only one that thinks RH having the ability to reboot your machine remotely is a bit frightening? I am at a loss buddy. Anyone else have any ideas?

Hmm...

Call your power company and see if they can toggle the power?

Is there anyone near the machine that you could have do it for you?

--Shade

I finally had someone reboot it, I should invest in a power remote reboot switch, lol. At first, when I was on the phone with the person rebooting it, scared the crap out of me.. said something abotu the AIC_7XXX errors (which is the controller) so he rebooted it, and it wouldn't come back up.. It just hung at Initializing vmlinux. I just had him power it off for about 10 minutes, brought it back up, it booted up fine.. Except it only had 6 MB Free memory.. I hurried and bu my stuff, rebooted, and then all the memory was free.. weird stuff.. lol..