Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:34:03 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Lord Raiden" <raiden23@netzero.net> Subject: Re: Interesting user question Message-ID: <20020106023223.DD48648425@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020104140214.009de650@pop.netzero.net>
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:06:38 -0500, Lord Raiden wrote: > Ok, here's a question that just stumps me. I know how to do this to some >degree, but not in the way that the user wants. Ok, here's the gist. User >came to me today and asked for a way that he could use his MSwindows box >(running 98se) to remotely shut down each of his BSD boxes when his 98 >shuts down. > > That I thought was easy. But here's the catch. It can't call for the BSD >boxes to shut down EXCEPT when he's actually shutting down for the >night. Not during normal mid-day reboots, or shutdowns. Only when he >shuts down at 5pm and powers down his workstations for the night and only >when shutting down his win98se machine. Any ideas on this? Right now he >does all 4 by hand, but would like something that doesn't require him to >have to do this all the time. Any ideas? > Personally I think it's silly, but it's got my curiosity, so I'm asking. :) silly yes.. I don't think windows has any kinda of scheduling like that. you could just make a cron event that runs shutdown -h now at 5 o'clock. or, you could have a shutdown command issued, because you can specify the shutdown time... look at the man shutdown. other than that, i'd say he is out of luck. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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