Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:16:59 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "rshea@opendoor.co.nz" <rshea@opendoor.co.nz> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "raiden23@netzero.net" <raiden23@netzero.net> Subject: Re: Interesting user question Message-ID: <20020106041519.AD4A948410@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <3C387419.11431.B04CA9D@localhost>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:58:17 +1300, rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: >> >> 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. >Just a small improvement - how about getting a cron to ping the W98SE anytime >after 5pm every 15 mins. If it doesn't hear back it in two succesive >invocations then it presumes the W98SE owner has turned off for the night and >so issues the shutdown commands to the FBSD box. > >Personally I wouldn't go near this stuff but ... sounds perfect to me.. unfortionatly, you'd have to script for it. I know I could do that with a batch file with dos ;) --- 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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