From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 03:39:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1062106564A for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:39:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from editor@d3photography.com) Received: from server.cwis.biz (70-89-202-5-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8599D8FC08 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.cwis.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D23267E8AD; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:45:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cwis.biz Received: from server.cwis.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (server.cwis.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ied6gsGC5Tat; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:44:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (70-89-202-1-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E41A267E8AC; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:44:51 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: <1310873512.63641.YahooMailRC@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:39:06 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <1310873512.63641.YahooMailRC@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: Bill Tillman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:39:20 -0000 When bottom replying, please clear the header and signature - thanks. You can set up a BIOS boot time, if you can get onsite... that would = allow you to power it down at, say, 11:59PM and have it power back on at = Midnight. Or a UPS that's controlled by another machine. Or the magic packet WOL = option... but those require another machine. Maybe a switch or router = than can send WOL packets would be a possibility? -- Ryan On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >=20 > WOW! That's a tall order. A reboot from remote is simple, but a cold = boot....I=20 > don't think that's possible unless you have some kind of Wake-On-Lan = capable NIC=20 > which could detect a connection attempt while the machine is off. I = can't say=20 > that for sure because what you've got to remember is that with a cold = boot, the=20 > machine will no longer remember what OS it was running until it = reboots. My=20 > advice would be to get to the console if you absolutely have to cold = boot it. Or=20 > call someone nearby the console and have the actually turn the machine = off, wait=20 > the obligatory 30 seconds and then restart it. Someone else may have a = better=20 > idea. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"