From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 11: 3:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from openrelay.msu.edu (openrelay.msu.edu [35.9.98.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4812B37B405 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from Megos ([65.194.248.251]) by openrelay.msu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g04Io4h31011 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:50:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020104140214.009de650@pop.netzero.net> X-Sender: raiden23@pop.netzero.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:06:38 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lord Raiden Subject: Interesting user question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, here's a question that just stumps me. I know how to do this to some degree, but not in the way that the user wants. Ok, here's the gist. User came to me today and asked for a way that he could use his MSwindows box (running 98se) to remotely shut down each of his BSD boxes when his 98 shuts down. That I thought was easy. But here's the catch. It can't call for the BSD boxes to shut down EXCEPT when he's actually shutting down for the night. Not during normal mid-day reboots, or shutdowns. Only when he shuts down at 5pm and powers down his workstations for the night and only when shutting down his win98se machine. Any ideas on this? Right now he does all 4 by hand, but would like something that doesn't require him to have to do this all the time. Any ideas? Personally I think it's silly, but it's got my curiosity, so I'm asking. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message