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 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"
