From: bughuntr AT ctelcom DOT net (Bug Hunter)
Subject: Re: reboot, anyone?
20 Apr 1998 19:02:20 -0700
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To: Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Cc: Arlindo da Silva <arlindo AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT 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 AT alum DOT mit DOT 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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