Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:14:27 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Patrik Kudo" <kudo@partitur.se>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shutdown and power-cut Message-ID: <199810301416.JAA26089@laker.net>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:39:41 +0100, Patrik Kudo wrote: >I've just found out that we're going to have a power-cut this night, so >I'm going >to make the servers here shutdown before that. That's easy. Now concern >now is >that the power might go up and down several times during the 4 hours the >"power >cut", and that will make the servers go up and down just as many times. >Unfortunately I can't be here (with the servers) at the time of the >powercut, >so I'm trying to figure out a way to keep the servers shut down for the >entire >4 hour period, even if the power comes back up for a while during that >time. > >Is there any "standard" way to do this? If not, would it be a good idea >to >write a script that is run early in the startupphase that checks the >current >time, compares it with a given time and shutdowns the computer if the >current >time is less than the given time? Ideas: 1. Pull the power plug and plug it back in tommorrow when you come in? 2. Put X10 controllers on each server and get an X10 controller with either a timer or dial-in capability? 3. Buy the low tech timers used to control pool pumps, etc? This email may be way too late, I didn't see it last night... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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