[BusyBox] remote rebooting

Charles Steinkuehler charles at steinkuehler.net
Tue Oct 23 11:39:33 UTC 2001


> I'm working on a diskless client that the customer wants to be remotely
> rebootable.  I'm looking into rsh (security not a problem) but I was
wondering
> if there's something in the embedded field already meant for this?  Any
> suggestions are appreciated.

If you're running inetd, or something similar, you can configure inetd.conf
to run arbitrary commands (like reboot) when inbound connections are
recieved at a particular port.

Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net






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