Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 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

2011-07-17 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

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

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
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-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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 aryeh.fried...@gmail.com 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,

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 aryeh.fried...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
-questions@freebsd.org 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? Powerdown: 'man shutdown' see the -p option. Hardware dependant. Reset after powerdown: Hardware dependant

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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

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

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

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

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 mailing list

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 edi...@d3photography.com Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail