Happy new year to all! You could also use the Shell.Application Activex through Javascript in order to run an external program that will boot the device. The only drawback here is that you will have to open your web page in Internet Explorer to be able to use ActiveX.
Cheers, Vassilis Samaltanos [Jacaranda Bill] visit: www.linkedin.com/in/jacaranda On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Dimitris Botsis <dimbot...@yahoo.gr> wrote: > The device that will be rebooted will be the web server (A) or other > systems in the same LAN together with the web server (B)? > > (A) If it's the web server, when the button of a web page is pressed you > can use PHP to call a system script that will reboot the system. For > example, for Linux it's : "shutdown -r now" or "reboot" > > (B) If you need to handle other devices in the same LAN then when the > HTML button is pressed you can store some flag in a database or in a > shared file. > You should make a Delphi program that will be installed in all other > systems. The purpose of that program will be to poll (e.g. every 5 > seconds) the database or the shared file for any changes in the flag : > When the flag has the value you will set as value for reboot time, then > through the local program you can tell every system to reboot. > > I hope I was clear enough. > > Cheers and a Happy new year ! > > > W. D. wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Been a while. Need to reboot a device in the > > middle of the night via a Web page. > > > > Any ideas on how to accomplish this? > > > > I know that I am being vague. I'll probably > > need this program to reboot different devices > > on different schedules. > > > > Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> > http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ > > $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
