From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 04:01:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566F8106566B for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:01:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FEB8FC08 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwr19 with SMTP id 19so2666711iwr.13 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:01:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sRMze5DWLhFK3NFCRx9BGBCjvZT5WqWA2hld8hSEI7M=; b=mInEFdTPT4MBO8yCfuapji0PWoregkvm14aySbH8ZZSyywMEGBgIlWemlvhoSEG0KJ Zi/HqTf2nK7z0LZMjpu5ieMhfzZWxa4dT74u7WeDwZYCMiUaEXtGjjRJdAPLErz8MGg5 k+T0kU8yaRZn9Iwe5XR7uHURNmX4swYFbuV7I= Received: by 10.42.154.10 with SMTP id o10mr5583416icw.365.1310875303415; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (c-98-212-201-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.201.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y3sm1971111ibc.20.2011.07.16.21.01.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E225EA4.9040507@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:40 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:01:44 -0000 On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without physically being present? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Odds are this would be a little bit of a hardware mod. Get a microcontroller and a relay, and tell the microcontroller to kill power to the system. Make sure in the BIOS you're set to restart when the power comes back on. If that fails you'll need another relay to short the on button. I don't know of anything in the computer that could be easily used instead of a microcontroller. You might be able to find something that'll work related to home automation. But the only guarantee of a power down is physically killing power, even if you're a thousand miles away.