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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:16:47 -0400
From:      "Simon" <simon@optinet.com>
To:        "Andrew McNaughton" <andrew@scoop.co.nz>, "FreeBSD-ISP List" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: reboot without forking
Message-ID:  <20040821171337.79E8743D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040822011355.V1573@a2.scoop.co.nz>

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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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