From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 28 10: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBD837BF7D for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA21411; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:03:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.1.20000428184009.00cac4b0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:48:47 +0200 To: Philippe Charron From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: someone has an idea ? Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3909B215.CAC1563D@stella-net.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 17:45 28.04.00 +0200, you wrote: >Hello, > >Im a trying to do a FreeBSD box without any keyboard (this machine will >be a Squid, HTTP and FTP serveur for non specialist person that can't >handle with a Unix system). > >As the user can't shutdown properly the computer, he has to press the >power button to switch off the box. >This leads to problems with fsck and inode lost in the system. > Hi! Well, there are several possibilities: If there are any other machines running on the local network (preferrably under Windoze), what about remote shutdown? Simply write a little script there, that logs onto the FBSD machine, and issues a "halt". There also shall be some little freeware/shareware programs available for that. Then create a shortcut on the desktop of that machine, and voila- Remote shutdown with a simple mouseclick. (Or place a crappy old 386 with some kind of win3.1 beneath the BSD box... Like a terminal) Or, if the shutdown is on a regular basis, do it with a cron job. Other thought: Is there any possibility that FBSD may read on actual boards those SMI power saving switch status? On newer boards you have that switch to set the system to a standby mode. What against making FBSD reading out that status of the switch, and instead standby-mode, a ordinary shutdown -h is issued? Best thing also would be a big big screen displayed after halt: It is now safe to turn the computer off ... ;-)) Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message