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Seather
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 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: Remotely restarting all services |
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Hi there,
What is the best way to remotely restart all services? Like running `/etc/init.d/* stop` and then `/etc/init.d/* start` again? But in a safe way since physical access is a 3 hour drive away?
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jlg
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I would say in a "screen" session through ssh.
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Seather
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| Doing every single one manually? |
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jlg
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If you want to stop and restart all the services wouldn't you be better off just rebooting the machine?
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Janne Pikkarainen
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"Restart all the services easily" and "Safe" do not click together.  It's better to do that one by one and check that everything still works, especially when the other option would be that three hours drive. Please remember that all kinds of boot-related scripts are located in /etc/init.d/ among the run-time services, and force-restarting those boot-related scripts in-flight can lead to all kind of ... hrm... interesting results.
But you may of course create a script like
| Code: | | for each in apache mysql postfix; { /etc/init.d/$each restart; } |
which would restart Apache, MySQL and Postfix. Doing a thing like that is always a bit risky and I prefer to do things like this in a more safe, although more time-consuming way, and restart the needed service one-by-one after an upgrade or a similar event.
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the_mole
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Hm, only the network interface should be the problem. If it doesn't restart, then you need to drive 
SSH for example holds running connections while restarting.
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