Network Safety Restart Bash Script

Tool when working on the network settings of a remote linux server

If you ever work on a remote servers network settings then this script may safe you from having to call support, and waiting on them.

When started/executed it

• Sleeps first for 1 hour
• Then it renames the ”/etc/network/interfaces” file by adding the current time stamp to the end of the file
• It renames a file called ”/etc/network/interfaces.org” to ”/etc/network/interfaces”
• And finally it restarts the server.

It also warns you a couple minutes before it does all that so you can terminate the program. Of course if you have been locked out you can't terminate it, and it will execute. Giving you a fresh start!

To start

network_Safety_Restart.sh start &

To Stop

network_Safety_Restart.sh stop

Here is the linkto the Gist or you can just copy and paste from below.

network_Safety_Restart.sh

#! /bin/sh
 
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
 
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
 
export PIDFILESTART=/tmp/network-safty-restart-start.pid
export PIDFILESTOP=/tmp/network-safty-restart-stop.pid
export FILE=/etc/network/interfaces
 
case "$1" in
  start)  
    if [ -f ${PIDFILESTART} ]; then
            rm ${PIDFILESTART}
    fi
    if [ -f ${PIDFILESTOP} ]; then
            rm ${PIDFILESTOP}
    fi	
    ps -fe | grep ${1} | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f 6 > ${PIDFILESTART}
 
        sleep 3600 
 
        log_action_msg "WARNING: Will in 120 sec rename ${FILE} and then restart"
        sleep 60
        log_action_msg "WARNING: Will in 60 sec rename ${FILE} and then restart"
        sleep 60
 
    if ! [ -f ${PIDFILESTOP} ]; then
        log_action_msg "Restarting NOW"
            SUFFIX=$(date +%s)
            cp ${FILE} ${FILE}.${SUFFIX}
            sleep 1
            cp ${FILE}.org ${FILE}
            sleep 1
            reboot -d -f -i
    else
        rm ${PIDFILESTOP}
        log_action_msg "NOT Restaring as you wish"
        fi
        ;;
  stop)
    if [ -f ${PIDFILESTART} ]; then
            rm ${PIDFILESTART}
        touch ${PIDFILESTOP}
        log_action_msg "Terminating restart script"
 
    fi
    log_action_msg "Terminated restart script"
 
    exit 0
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

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First Created: 2012-06-27T22:57:08Z
Last Modified: 2026-04-05 19:35