From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 15:39:46 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 ED92537B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5043E3B for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g63MdY556055; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:39:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020703173934.0131c538@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:39:34 -0500 To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , , "Doug Hardie" From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Initiating a shutdown without a console In-Reply-To: <0f5901c222df$b3c0bec0$edec910c@fbccarthage.com> References: <000c01c221a3$7ee025c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 05:19 PM 7.3.2002 -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >*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. >> I use "shutdown -p now" and works for me every time on several machines..... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message