From: markhobley@... (Mark Hobley)
Date: 2010-02-06T20:10:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Can ruby do a repeated Reboot test script

Ham Baba <hamid_rasoulian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just want to write a ruby script that reboots the computer for 10
> repeated times. Is it possible? I appriciate any help.

Ensure that your system is configured in such a manner that members of
"shutdown" can reboot the system. Create a startup script to run the rebooter
as a member of the shutdown group. From within the ruby software: create a 
counter" file if one does not exist, setting the count to 10. Use the count
that the file contains. If the count is zero, then exit because the system has
already rebooted 10 times, otherwise decrement the count and "shell out" to 
the reboot command.

Mark.

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