From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2010-02-06T21:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Can ruby do a repeated Reboot test script

On 6 Feb 2010, at 11:10, Mark Hobley wrote:
> 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.

Remembering of course to explicitly flush the file buffer of the status file and sync the filesystem before performing the reboot :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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