RE: Restart Linux System

2007-05-23 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Probably not. You need to just spawn the reboot command, or run init 6. This requires root, though. Without root there's no way to reboot a linux system. ...unless you run shutdown(8) or reboot(8) setuid root (reboot is kinda harsh though, btw). It's not that bad. Reboot takes

Re: Restart Linux System

2007-05-22 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:25 +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, I’m looking to restart a Linux system from my python application. What’s the best way to achieve this, is there something in the OS module? Probably not. You need to just spawn the reboot command, or run

Re: Restart Linux System

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Bentley
On May 22, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Michael L Torrie wrote: I’m looking to restart a Linux system from my python application. What’s the best way to achieve this, is there something in the OS module? Probably not. You need to just spawn the reboot command, or run init 6. This requires root,

Re: Restart Linux System

2007-05-22 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:34 -0700, Alexandre Gans wrote: You can use sudo on your user or the bit suid in your application... Just know that you cannot setuid any shebang executable, of which python scripts usually are. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list