Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/12/08:30:54
On May 11 17:47, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On May 10 07:33, Egerton, James wrote:
> > > I've tried using the Cygwin shutdown-1.4 from an ssh session and it
> > > doesn't seem to do anything. The call to ExitWindowsEx doesn't
> appear
> > > to fail, but nothing happens after the "WARNING!!!..." message is
> > > displayed. I have verified that the system can be rebooted from ssh
> if
> > > InitiateSystemShutdown is called instead of ExitWindowsEx and this
> > > appears to be consistent with the ExitWindowsEx description:
> >
> > Thanks for the report.
> > I'll upload a new shutdown tool within the next few days, probably.
>
> I tried out the following sequence:
>
> reboot -f "now"
>
> I had no reaction. Then I typed
>
> shutdown now
>
> No reaction too. Then I closed the remote console and went back to my
> room. My computer was rebooting. So remote shutdown is working, but in a
> bit strange (and slow) way.
>
> This summer I've been shutdowning from a remote console a lot, and
> everything worked fine, so I wonder what's different now.
It works for me, too. Using InitiateSystemShutdown might be just the
cleaner method, I guess.
Corinna
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