VanLUG Email Archive
Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:46:54 -0800
On 17 Jan 99, at 9:36, Brian Edmonds wrote:
> Andrew Daviel <andrew@daviel.ml.org> writes:
> > Is there a way to do this for $0 with no Win compiler, etc. ??
Actually all you really need to do is run a batch file for that, we had this
discussion on the win95-l list a few times in the last couple years, one of
the guys there wrote a few batch files to handle this sort of thing. Now how
to get the *nix box to activate those batch files ..... now that is a good
question.
What ups are you using? I have an apc and their s/w doesn't technically
support that sort of remote shutdown. OTOH, Exide, and a couple of other
ups manufacturers have s/w and ethernet interfaces that will shut down the
an entire network of win9x, winNT, linux, unix os/2 machines. Basically
you just run the client s/w on the machine in question and the client either
polls the ups's ip address on a regular basis or the ups broadcasts to teh
clients when its time to shut down. Now this is not a cheap thing. Although
when I was speaking with the APC rep at comdex, he said they will be
adding this feature to their s/w soon, he also mentioned that someone in
the linux community had ported their ups s/w to linux and made some nice
additions. Sorry I haven't gotten around to searching the net for this yet.
Now back to cheap way to do this, it seems to me there'd be some way to
use a cron job or something to pull this off, maybe a script running via
samba networking......
> I don't recall, does VNC run on Win95, or only NT? If it runs on 95, then
> you could just run a server on the 95 box, connect with a Linux client,
> and you get a full 95 desktop, presumably including shutdown capability.
yes VNC runs on the ms windows platfom win9x and NT
Harondel J. Sibble
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
help@pdscc.com (pgp enabled) http://www.pdscc.com
(604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun 17 Jan 1999 - 18:47:17 PST