Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:19:29 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org> Subject: Re: Initiating a shutdown without a console Message-ID: <0f5901c222df$b3c0bec0$edec910c@fbccarthage.com> References: <CGEIKJFNGMJHCMFBJGJFEEIHCAAA.root@unixhideout.com> <000c01c221a3$7ee025c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> <f05111b1db9490af7056b@[10.0.1.90]>
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*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" <bc979@lafn.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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