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To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: Remote power cycle 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:40:08 CST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:35:09 -0800
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>I'm also using the serial console to monitor machines, and remotely reboot
>them when necessary. (I'm working on using X10 stuff to actually cycle power
>for  me)
>
>However, for now, even when the serial console is still running, but the
>machine is  mostly dead, I can never get reboot to work... It tells me some
>processess would not die, ps axl advised - then it locks up.

   That's very strange and not a problem that I've seen.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project