[Tutor] Telnet and pexpect module

[Lie Ryan]

On 12/14/2009 11:51 PM, alex loutrbringa' wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I hope i'm in the right place. I'm trying to automate an operation we
> usually do manually with some RS232(serial port)/ethernet MOXA switches.
> This operation reboots a linux debian device by sending a
> "magic-sysrq+b" command to the kernel if this device does not respond
> through SSH.
> To do that manually, we do :

For your circumstance, can you write to the special file instead?

#for Alt+SysRq+b (reBoot)
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

and I've never used this, but you might be interested to see sysrqd 
http://julien.danjou.info/sysrqd/