Subj : how to shutdown os/2 from remote
To   : Michael Balcos
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Fri Mar 11 2005 09:31 pm

Hi Michael,

 MB> I would like to know how the shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 
 MB> Connect from a remote Linux box. My power daemon is 
 MB> running under the Linux box and I would like the OS/2 
 MB> system be shutdown also when the batteries go low. 
 MB> Could you help me, please? :)

Unfortunately thats not quite as easy as one might expect. 

Boot Manager has a facility that allows you to control a reboot from the 
commandline. Look up the SETBOOT command. TIP: The /B option REBOOTS after a 
Shutdown, however you can explicity stop the Reboot by specifying a 
non-existant partition to boot (/IBA:invalidname).

Another way is to use the SHUTDOWN utiity that does exactly that, HOWEVER it is 
provided with Warp 4 FP6 or greater BUT it is not installed. You can find it in 
the FP archives under the fix\os2.3\ directory but you need to UNPACK it first.

I have not tried these but it seems the main catch is that none of them seem to 
turn the power OFF after shutdown, they all leave the machine running.

The harder part is to get the command executed under the control of a remote 
machine, but depending on what networking you have available, it can be done.

Cheers.................pk.


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