From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 20:57:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA13414 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (ppp-159.halifax-01.ican.net [206.231.248.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA13408 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost.hub.org [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA00436 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:57:45 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:57:44 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Remotely power cycle a machine...? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I'm having problems with one of my remote machines running 2.2.2-RELEASE that seems to "feel" like a SCSI bus problem. There isn't much I can do about it, since the machine is 2500 kilometers, and 3 provinces away :( So, right now, she is down, and will be for the next 10hrs or so...very bad for business :( Does anyone know of any way of doing a remote power cycle of a machine? Mainly, what I was thinking, was the ability to throw on some sort of device that I can either telnet to (we have a Sparc20 on location, so maybe a device hanging off a serial port from that?) or dialup into on the phone, that I can force the machine to reboot itself? Or maybe "terminate" the power and turn it back on again? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org