[TriLUG] Faking a reboot on a linux box

[Jason Faulkner]

Simple: Don't.

Yell and scream for escalation.

On 8/24/06, sholton at mindspring.com <sholton at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Short version of a long story:
> There's a problem with an application I need to run on a server.
>
> I access the application remotely from a linux box.
>
> The helpdesk for the application doesn't know what's broke or how to fix it, but their support script says to "tell the user to restart Widows and try again".
>
> The helpdesk person apparently knows just enough *NIX to log in and check uptime.
>
> I don't want to reboot my box. I dead certain the problem is on the server.
>
> I know about ' shutdown -k ' . I can disable and re-enable the network interface in case they're pinging it. But what else can I do to make it 'look' like I've rebooted, so that they move on to looking for the real problem?
>
> Is there a way to reset the uptime counter to zero without rebooting the box?
>
> echo "0" > /proc/uptime doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> Does anyone care to share any other 'tricks' along these lines?
>
>
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