From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 20:15:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DF2637B402 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:15:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8148 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 04:15:15 -0000 Received: from dap-216-151-64-3.nfas.greensburg-tnt-2.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (216.151.64.3) by smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 04:15:15 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id AD4A948410; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:15:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "rshea@opendoor.co.nz" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "raiden23@netzero.net" Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:16:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <3C387419.11431.B04CA9D@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Interesting user question Message-Id: <20020106041519.AD4A948410@wastegate.net> 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 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