Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: Shutdown doesn't seem to work when invoked from ssh session Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:47:57 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <20040510164646.GC8667@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fw-gw-atm.mimuw.edu.pl X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 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. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/