From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 22: 0:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B593437B776 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07054; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:29:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:29:49 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wonko@entropy.tmok.com, Irwan Hadi Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Aug-00 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > use something like netsaint to monitor those machines? and the APC master > switch is web administered, so it would be too easy to build a quick perl > script to trigger a power outlet correspondign to the partiular server > that was n olonger responding ... Personally I would wire something up to the reset switch instead.. Much less potential for accidentally nuking your hardware if your script is broken and starts toggling machines on and off like mad.. (much less violent on disk etc too) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message