From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 04:07:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01521065672 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:07:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from editor@d3photography.com) Received: from server.cwis.biz (70-89-202-5-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538958FC15 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.cwis.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25794267E8AF; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:13:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cwis.biz Received: from server.cwis.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (server.cwis.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JK4c1kEX+UCL; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:12:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (70-89-202-1-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4299E267E8AE; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:12:52 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: <4E225EA4.9040507@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:07:07 -0500 Message-Id: References: <4E225EA4.9040507@gmail.com> To: Joshua Isom X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:07:21 -0000 On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a >> i386 without physically being present? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > Odds are this would be a little bit of a hardware mod. Get a = microcontroller and a relay, and tell the microcontroller to kill power = to the system. Make sure in the BIOS you're set to restart when the = power comes back on. If that fails you'll need another relay to short = the on button. I don't know of anything in the computer that could be = easily used instead of a microcontroller. I think I kinda covered that with the UPS remote control thing...=20