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Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

darren kirby

2008-04-02

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quoth the Neil Bothwick:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed
> > ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and
> > unmounted.
>
> Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH
> daemon and you can't reboot the box. You can guess how I learned that
> one :(

Ha. Hopefully the machine wasn't too far away physically.

-d
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