On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Clive Gould wrote: > Hi > > We have a mission critical Dell rackmount server. > > I tried to reboot it via an ssh session and it just kept running! > > > The command I used was: > > [root at vle tmp]# shutdown -r now > > Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 10 08:28:44 2006): > > The system is going down for reboot NOW! > > > Looking at /var/log/messages it says: > > Oct 10 08:28:44 vle shutdown: shutting down for system reboot > > > But the server just keeps on running!!! > > I have an identical hot backup box and it happily rebooted this > morning. > > Any suggestions most welcome... > > Thanks > > Clive > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Did you try the reboot command? Failing that, does the shutdown -h work? There's always the "kill power" option, but that's not recommended for the health of your disks... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714-628-7249 / chandler at chapman.edu "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here." -- Peter Da Silva in a.s.r. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061010/b81d09eb/attachment-0005.html>