Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:17:53 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Initiating a shutdown without a console Message-ID: <f05111b1db9490af7056b@[10.0.1.90]> In-Reply-To: <000c01c221a3$7ee025c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> References: <CGEIKJFNGMJHCMFBJGJFEEIHCAAA.root@unixhideout.com> <000c01c221a3$7ee025c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net>
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I have an unusual situation where I am going to have a machine that is used for off-site archiving of a database. It will be an "appliance" that lives in someone's house and will occasionally need to be moved to another location. It has 2 interfaces - power and ethernet. No console, keyboard etc. The only item remaining to be figured out is how to safely shut it down so it can be unplugged and moved. The people who are doing this will have no knowledge of Unix or systems so having them do anything beyond the power key and moving is not possible. I am going to do a couple sync's after each update and perhaps I should have cron do them every couple minutes also. I believe that I can convince them not to power down while the disk busy light is on. Is this approach going to be adequate or is there something else I can do? -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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