From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkRaS-0002RQ-MV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3533AE03CF; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3A3E03CF for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 413D94073DD for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:39 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote Reboots Message-ID: <20090319232339.5ee5f961@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903191511q6a55b67ft6171fa7664d25e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10903191511q6a55b67ft6171fa7664d25e0@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs21 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/RcgcimCrSMBMf3j_/sPrdS6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 55b6e156-250f-4783-832c-b64e11d9f88f X-Archives-Hash: ec1112fc4c39dfd6d012c51cbeee8ba9 --Sig_/RcgcimCrSMBMf3j_/sPrdS6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:11:27 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm currently jumping through some hoops trying to get my Gentoo > router and cable modem rebooted since they've stopped functioning and > I'm away from them. Is there any sort of a slick setup to enable me > to remotely kill/apply power to a couple of devices like these? I > can't think of anything. You can do this with X-10. I had my Internet connection die while on holiday a couple of times,with no way to power cycle the modem, so I plugged in in through an X-10 module and have a cron job that switches it off and on if several addresses are inaccessible for a while. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as Christopher Robin shut the washing machine door. --Sig_/RcgcimCrSMBMf3j_/sPrdS6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknC0/sACgkQum4al0N1GQNmUQCguox4KLVj2Pn9pnqvDyiCAt6w trcAoJkFW3ZxObUuufyOp9h0V/BsOpOB =/nAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/RcgcimCrSMBMf3j_/sPrdS6--