Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:48:31 +0000 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcPp2FU1uMgAcMDAu_YAY__=NLTEQrSy1ugVMDZZ7HDyvA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXnz3cD6ZKaDiDW_YEWpdhwjkAUBLM07T0_2NkpGc5QfmA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXnz3cD6ZKaDiDW_YEWpdhwjkAUBLM07T0_2NkpGc5QfmA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without physically being present? > _______________________________________________ Sure! If I understand your question correctly, reboot yes, shutdown then powerup by itself *Don't know :( * You can setup a crontab (as root user or with setuid ), something like 30 09 * * * /sbin/init 6 > /dev/null; would reboot the machine at 9:30 am. But if you mean shut it down and then restart it automatically, I don't know for sure if it can be done? Regards, Antonio
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