Hi, > > Probably not. You need to just spawn the "reboot" command, or run > > "init 6." This requires root, though. Without root there's no way > > to reboot a linux system. > > ...unless you run shutdown(8) or reboot(8) setuid root (reboot is > kinda harsh though, btw).
It's not that bad. Reboot takes care of unintended consequences itself: from 'man 8 reboot': > If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, > in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked > instead (with the -h or -r flag). Since version 2.74 :) - Sander -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
