On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:51:19AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In > order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way > to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin > was kind enough to give me two alternatives:
No idea what sort of emergency they'd be anticipating; if it was something like a power failure, the obvious solution would be to use a UPS with serial support so you could do a graceful shutdown when the battery ran low. The setuid program that syslogs the user, then runs the shutdown is as viable a solution as any. If you don't mind losing accountability, but want an idiot shutdown button attached to the machine, I'd look at getting some sort of LCD/keypad interface from Matrix Orbital or one of their competitors. http://www.matrixorbital.com/products.htm -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
