On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > > Neil even proposed ALT + > > > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and > > > unmounted. > > > > Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking > > about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example). > > E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application > should shut down cleanly on this. I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects > programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to > lose by then. >
I tried ALT + SysRq + EISUB today on my MythTV backend server which has been crashing lately. Unfortunately it's crashing so badly that even at the server's keyboard this didn't work. I guess my weekend fate of building a new server is sealed... Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
