Remote Shutdown

[Ryan oberto]

hi you could ssh in 

and tell it 

shutdown -h 2
and exit 
should give you enough time to get off


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:11:41 -0700
"Drew Lane" <drewlane@qwest.net> wrote:

> What's the best way to shutdown one computer from another?
> 
> I've got two machines running YDL.  
> 
> The first one is a regular setup.
> 
> The second one has no keyboard, monitor or mouse;
> just an ethernet connection to the LAN.
> 
> I was able to telnet to the second machine, switch
> to root, and issue 'poweroff', but it froze up the
> console on the first machine.
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Ryan Oberto
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