Re: Shutdown script for apple Mac
Re: Shutdown script for apple Mac
- Subject: Re: Shutdown script for apple Mac
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:59:48 +0100
on 11/7/01 5:04 am, Greg Meece at email@hidden wrote:
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> Anyway, the customer also wants to shutdown his
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> MAC server also
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> based on power events. While Multilink 3.0 is available for
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> Windows, it is
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> not currently available for MAC. However, Multilink 3.0, (whatever
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> version) does have command file/execute batch option also for
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> each power
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> event. What I need to know is:
...
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About the only other thing I can think of would
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be a proprietary application which would watch for a TCP/IP stream to
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come across to signal execution.
Turn on Apple's Personal Web Sharing.
Write a simple CGI which tells the machine to shutdown.
Write a small routine to call the relevant URL from the Windows box.
Easy.
To make it secure might be more fun but shouldn't be impossible.
HTH
Simon Forster
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