simulate keypress (force reboot)

RouterOS Scripting
1

Hello,

is it possible to simulate a keypress in a RouterOS script? I’d like to force a reboot in an upgrade script, but

/system reboot

always requires a “y” keypress. I checked the wiki, but didn’t find any solution. I’m new to RouterOS, so bear with me. :wink:

Thanks a lot,
Florian

2

Are you testing in the terminal? If so, then you’ll have to press Y.

If you schedule the script or run it from WInbox, it won’t ask for confirmation.

3

Thank you so much - I indeed did test from the terminal. Will have a look at the scripting feature! :wink:
Thanks a lot!

4

I have a script that tries to reboot when the lte1 interface mysteriously goes away… but the reboot doesn’t work when it is called by the scheduler.

0 name=“check_lte1” owner=“admin” policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon
last-started=mar/03/2017 09:00:00 run-count=553 source=
:global nameInt
:set nameInt “”;

#:log info message=“The WAN interface is $nameInt”;

:do { :set nameInt [/ interface lte get value-name=name number=0;]; } on-error={
/log info message=“Reboot for lte1 recovery”;
/delay 8s;
/system reboot;
/log info message=“Shouldn’t reach here after reboot”;
}


However, when I replace the “/system reboot;” with “/system script run reboot-on-demand;”, where reboot-on-demand is a script that enables a scheduled task that reboots… it works!

Am I doing something wrong??

I wish we had a command line switch to /system reboot that would positively disable the keypress, or another command like /system reboot-without-prompt.

5

Here is the reboot-on-demand script I mentioned:

2 name=“reboot-on-demand” owner=“admin” policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon
run-count=0 source=/system scheduler enable reboot-on-demand


Here is the scheduler job (initially disabled) that actually can reboot w/o a prompt. When it is enabled, it immediately disables itself to prevent boot loop, then does the “/system reboot” command which works without prompt…

1 X name=“reboot-on-demand” start-date=mar/03/1970 start-time=00:00:00 interval=1s
on-event=/system scheduler disable reboot-on-demand;\n/system reboot; owner=“admin”
policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon run-count=0


So again the question; why doesn’t /system reboot work in my other script which is also called by a scheduler job every 5 minutes?