Very cool - sounds almost legendary like the Story of Mel ( http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Story-of-Mel.html ) ;)
-----Original Message----- From: John Roland Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shutdown gotcha with Win32 host (Forgive me while I engage in a little nostalgia.) At some point in my so-called career, I worked with a guy who faced a similar problem with some piece of recalcitrant hardware, i.e., he needed to cycle power remotely. The object of his frustration was in his lab and conveniently located close to a print server. He wired an ordinary light switch --- the kind that is typically in the wall --- into a power cord for the device. He then mounted the switch on an old junk matrix printer in a position where the print head would strike the switch handle as it went back and forth, switching off as the head went left-to-right and on as the head went right-to-left. When he needed to cycle power, he submitted a one-line print job to the "prepared printer". As it printed the first and only line in the job, the head would turn the device off; as the head homed to the left margin, back on it would go. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabor D. Kiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: Re: shutdown gotcha with Win32 host > Is there any such thing as a "power strip with an IP address" for > situations like this? If you can't do it any other way, power cycle the bad > boy remotely. This would be a very handy gadget. > > Gabor > > > > Seanster > <Seanster@Sea To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > nster.com> cc: (bcc: Gabor D. Kiss/Telcordia) > Subject: Re: shutdown gotcha with Win32 host > 03/05/2002 > 07:07 PM > Please > respond to > vnc-list > > > > > > > > One workaround is psshutdown.exe. It's available at sysinternals.com in > the misc utils section. You can force a reboot of a remote windows > system with it. If the machine is already in shutdown mode, you can use > pslist and pskill to find and nuke whatever it is that is holding up the > reboot process. > > I use this fairly often to reboot machines when pcanywhere chokes and > won't let anyone connect. > > I don't remember any good reason why vnc can't shut down last but there > was some discussion of it here a while ago. > > -Sean > > > Alex Angelopoulos wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I believe that is Windows refusing the connection when you > > shutdown - and you are right, it is incredibly annoying. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
