On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:39:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:39:06 -0500 > From: Ryan Coleman <edi...@d3photography.com> > Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely > To: Bill Tillman <btillma...@yahoo.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > > When bottom replying, please clear the header and signature - thanks. > > You can set up a BIOS boot time, if you can get onsite... that would allow > you to power it down at, say, 11:59PM and have it power back on at Midnight. > > Or a UPS that's controlled by another machine. Or the magic packet WOL > option... but those require another machine. Maybe a switch or router than > can send WOL packets would be a possibility? > > -- > Ryan
I had something like this in late 1995. Remotely "shutdown -h [time]" got my box powered down, then a remote timer cycled the power. Problems were: that the timer was hard to set exacrly. [There may have ben two timers; it was a bear of a problem. ] gary > > On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > > > > WOW! That's a tall order. A reboot from remote is simple, but a cold > > boot....I > > don't think that's possible unless you have some kind of Wake-On-Lan > > capable NIC > > which could detect a connection attempt while the machine is off. I can't > > say > > that for sure because what you've got to remember is that with a cold boot, > > the > > machine will no longer remember what OS it was running until it reboots. My > > advice would be to get to the console if you absolutely have to cold boot > > it. Or > > call someone nearby the console and have the actually turn the machine off, > > wait > > the obligatory 30 seconds and then restart it. Someone else may have a > > better > > idea. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"