From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 19:46:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA02472 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from xoom.com (host074.xoom.com [207.90.142.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02262; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpsmith@xoom.com) Received: from mail1.xoom.com (host074.xoom.com [207.90.142.74]) by xoom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA04703; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:42:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:42:42 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Remote power cycle Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to remotely power cycle machines at our colocation because they tend to hang on reboots because of zombies or just hang. They are FreeBSD 3.0 and 2.2.5 boxes. Our colocation has a good power supply with a backup generator so an UPS is kind of redundant. I don't want to use a phone line to connect to a device which can power cycle machines. I would prefer to telnet into either a FreeBSD box which does nothing or the power cycling device if that is possible. Why? Because we will be moving from our current colocation to a new colocation in the next few weeks and it would be a waste of time and would probably take a few weeks to get the phone line installed. Granted telneting into a FreeBSD box which might itself hang is a single point of failure, but I can live with it. All help, ideas, suggestions would be much appreciated. I've looked around the archives and could only find some advice for a device which one dials into, to remotely power cycle machines. Dave.