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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:15:10 -0700
From: "Michael F. March" <march AT indirect DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shutdown doesn't seem to work when invoked from ssh session
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Here is something kind of freaky.. If I am at the same time
logged into server that is running sshd using VNC, shutdown
through an SSH session, *DOES* work.



> 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.
> 
> Corinna
> 


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