Remotely rebooting a linux machine

u03pje · 12-02-2009, 05:21 AM

Is there a means of remotely sending the reboot command to a PC or group of PCs?

Elder_Usr · 12-02-2009, 05:25 AM

Hey,

So, in the reference to "rebooting" the PC's or multiple PCs, are you wanting to just restart the X interface, or total ACPI power down and boot back up?

Reason I'm asking is that, both are two different answers.

Thx

druuna · 12-02-2009, 05:26 AM

Hi,

You can use ssh to do that: ssh root@<host> init 6.

A loop would do this for more machines:

Code:

for THISHOST in host1 host2 ..... hostN
do
  ssh root@${THISHOST} init 6
done

Hope this helps.