RE: BBS shutdown commandline
BY: phipps #1 @1802000*80 to All on Thu Dec 20 2001 08:28 pm

 > Paying around today I hit the * at the wfc screen
 > to see what happened.
 >
 > The node i used sent a file to the vadv dir for each node.
 > cmd1.flg, cmd2.flg, etc..
 > each node shutdown deleting the file as it went down.
 > for the nodes that werent running the file was left
 > in the vadv dir to foil the next start up attempt.
 >
 > Why didn't he look for a chainx.run node up flag
 > before before writeing the kill flag?

I played with that for awhile. If you run VADV from a batchfile, you can put in
a line to kill those files before the batchfile closes. Unfortunately that
won't help you remotely. I used a forced remote shutdown utility... can't
remember what it was called... to execute a *.v script to start that utility
from the commandline. The system just came back up automagically.

Of course, the remote restarts were due to system lockups, so if I got a BSOD
or something, it was worthless. VADV never crashed on just one node for me. 

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