----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiply displays and remote shutdown
> > My question is how to auto shutdown slave computer when I power off master > > computer? Maybe write script that use rsh? > > I'd have the slaves ping the master's IP address every six seconds for a > count of 10 (i.e. one minute). If no response whatsoever is received, > shut down the machine. That way, the slaves will stay running unless > you "ifdown" your network card for diagnostics (in which case having > the slave displays is probably pretty useless anyway). > your method is hardly expensive in LAN why not to use rsh shutdown command but I don't know how > Another nice thing is to have the slave sessions started ... and stopped ... > by the master's script. That way, when not running FGFS, slave displays may > be attached to the X session on the master to give you a three times larger > desktop area (which is nice). > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
