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From: User Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...?
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Here in the States, I'd run to Radio Shack and pick up a $30 box
that conects to a phone line.  You plug up to 4 devices into it.
Call the phone number dial #1 to turn off power to the device in plug
one, dial *1 to turn power back on.  I used to use this to support
a Novell (ick) Netware Access Server) that blew up quite often.

 -- Al

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> 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