From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 15:20:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F9B37B4D2 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CBA43E42 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.230] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.10) id A838333600F0; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:18:32 -0500 Message-ID: <0f5901c222df$b3c0bec0$edec910c@fbccarthage.com> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: , "Doug Hardie" References: <000c01c221a3$7ee025c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Subject: Re: Initiating a shutdown without a console Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:19:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 *Someone* does something UNIX like with this machine, do they not? When it's time to move, call shutdown -h now from remote, then they move it and punch the power switch? I must be missing the essence of the situation... KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hardie" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Initiating a shutdown without a console > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message