Hi folks,
I have an old machine which will be set up as my
dial-up/masquerading/firewall PC. So far, all is going well, I'm already
able to initiate the PPP link remotely (thanks to Masqdialer - thanks to
the folks who told me a about it a good while ago!).
Now, the one thing I haven't found a solution for (yet...) is: How do I
shut that box down remotely? I intend to run it without a keyboard and
without monitor (basically chuck it into a corner, make a switch
available and forget about it), but I do not want to have it running
24/7 (energy- and noisewise). Hence, my questions:
1) How do I enable the two users I have to shut that machine down
properly remotely? I was thinking about "sudo" or something like
that, but I don't really want to make accounts available on that
machine. The box doesn't have telnet installed, just ssh.
Maybe some kind of daemon? Or do I open myself up to a Denial of
Service attack? The two other boxes on the network are both running
Linux (RHL 5.2) as well, btw.
2) How do I flag the status of the machine, i.e. how can I make sure
it's shut down before I throw the switch without having a monitor? I
was already thinking along the lines of having a LED hanging off the
parallel port or something like that...
If anybody out there has any ideas, I'd appreciate some enlightenment...
Thanks!
Thomas
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