Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Ryan Coleman
I'd feel better about the company if they used English correctly and didn't have a bunch of HTML bombs. On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > >> In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: >>> Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Feenberg
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? You haven't said what about an ordinary "shutdown -r" isn't satisfactory, but we have an iboot gizmo http://dataprobe.com/remo

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without physically being present? I'm not fully sure what you mean by "reset" in terms that it happens _after_ powering down. When a machine is powered down (i. e.

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Gary Kline
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 > Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely > To: Bill Tillman > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > > When

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a >> i386 without physically being present? >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 > without physically being present? If you have a server motherboard with IPMI (or a high-end server with a service processor module), you can use that to power cycle the s

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
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 op

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Sat, July 16, 2011 10:40:19 PM Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? _

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
Won't " -p " power it down and leave it powered down? On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 21:40:19 2011 >> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400 >> From: Aryeh Friedman >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List >> Subject: how to force a

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 21:40:19 2011 > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400 > From: Aryeh Friedman > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely > > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without phys

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without physically being present? > ___ Sure! If I understand your question correctly, reboot yes, shutdown then powerup