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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:16:59 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "rshea@opendoor.co.nz" <rshea@opendoor.co.nz>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "raiden23@netzero.net" <raiden23@netzero.net>
Subject:   Re: Interesting user question
Message-ID:  <20020106041519.AD4A948410@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C387419.11431.B04CA9D@localhost>

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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:58:17 +1300, rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote:

>> 
>> silly yes..  I don't think windows has any kinda of scheduling like
>> that.  you could just make a cron event that runs shutdown -h now at 5
>> o'clock.  or, you could have a shutdown command issued,  because you
>> can specify the shutdown time...  look at the man shutdown.  other than
>> that, i'd say he is out of luck.

>Just a small improvement - how about getting a cron to ping the W98SE anytime 
>after 5pm every 15 mins. If it doesn't hear back it in two succesive 
>invocations then it presumes the W98SE owner has turned off for the night and 
>so issues the shutdown commands to the FBSD box. 
>
>Personally I wouldn't go near this stuff but ...

sounds perfect to me..  unfortionatly, you'd have to script for it.  I
know I could do that with a batch file with dos ;)

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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