Subj : how to shutdown os/2 from remote
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Herbert Rosenau
Date : Fri Mar 11 2005 11:08 am

Am 11.03.05 21:31 schrieb Peter Knapper

 PK> Hi Michael,

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

 PK> Unfortunately thats not quite as easy as one might expect. 

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

That means loosing data because the filesystems are NOT clean thereafter, 
chaches are not flushed, data lost is the result.



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