Hey guys I have an easy one.  unRAID dynamix service has been unresponsive for a week and I finally need to restart my server.  Dockers, VMs, and samba shares etc are working fine.

 

How can I cleanly restart the server from a telnet session?

Install the Powerdown plugin and you should be able to use the 'powerdown' command from a telnet session.  If you have not installed the plugin then you will find that command will hang if the GUI is unresponsive.  The plugin provides an enhanced version of the command that should still work when the GUI is playing up.

If you have the powerdown plugin installed (highly recommended),

 

powerdown -r

 

if not,

 

reboot

(but it may not be a clean shutdown)

 

I use putty to ssh into the machine and run the reboot command, if not plug the server into a monitor and enter the reboot command in the command line :-)

I use putty to ssh into the machine and run the reboot command, if not plug the server into a monitor and enter the reboot command in the command line :-)

Like Squid says, that may result in an "unclean" shutdown.

 

Far better to install the powerdown plugin...

Thanks for the advice everyone, looks like I'll just have to use reboot which I was hoping to avoid by starting this post.  Kind of shocked unRAID doesn't have a built in script for a clean shutdown to run from a telnet session considering how finicky and prone to crashing dynamix can be sometimes.