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Re: reboot, anyone?
- To: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: reboot, anyone?
- From: Bug Hunter <bughuntr at ctelcom dot net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:09:03 -0500
- CC: Arlindo da Silva <arlindo at niteroi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <3.0.5.32.19980417090240.00a25a10@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
If you go to www.perl.org, and follow the "active" link for perl for Win32,
it will give you a Win32 perl library that includes a function call which allows
you to forcibly reboot the machine. Once installed, a perl script could be run
from a telnet session which reboots the machine.
bug
Larry Hall wrote:
> At 12:14 PM 4/16/98 -0400, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a command line, no questions asked, "reboot" utility for
> >NT. I'd like to be able to reboot my NT box remotely from a telnet shell.
> >
> > It is important that it skips the dialog box as I won't be there to click
> >the "OK" button. Can this be done?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >--
> >Arlindo da Silva
> >dasilva@alum.mit.edu
> >
>
> I don't have a command line program to do this but it should be simple enough
> to write one using ExitWindows() or ExitWindowsEx().
>
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