On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Amir Gil wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > 2 questions:
> > 1) Does anyone have experience with hypernet(each box connected to each
> > box with seperate ethernet line) configuration? To be specific - I would
> > like to know how to make MPICH use all ethernet lines optimally. In the
> > basic configurations of MPICH there is no architecture like this and it
> > seems that when using "-device=ch_p4" the implementation is like a
> > hypercube.
> > 2) A little off-topic - does anybody have a script/code for shutting a
> > linux box (hardware shutdown) from a remote terminal?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Amir
> >
>
>
> Can't help with (1) but for (2) log in as root and execute "shutdown -h
> now" or "shutdown -r now"... trivial for a login script... You can use
> either rlogin or telnet to connect...
>
>
To implement hardware shutdown of a PII you need to compile
Advanced Power Management BIOS support into your kernel under char
devices. Then when you implement a 'shutdown -h now' it will kill the
power as well. Hope this helps.
~~Kev
