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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:30:42 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shutdown doesn't seem to work when invoked from ssh session
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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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