From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1181 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Edmonds Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: rebooting on read-only /? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151519756 32661 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2006 18:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1417-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed Jun 28 20:35:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fvesq-0006Fs-Ez for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4692 invoked by uid 76); 28 Jun 2006 18:35:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 4686 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2006 18:35:48 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r44h17.res.gatech.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Sender: news Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1181 Archived-At: I have a server using runit as init and the only drive in the machine has experienced a block layer failure and has been write-protected. Now, when I attempt to reboot, # init 6 init: fatal: unable to create /etc/runit/stopit: read-only file system Is there any way to signal runit to reboot the machine without touching the filesystem, even uncleanly? Maybe something akin to sysvinit's "reboot -f"? -- Robert Edmonds