[P1] Remote controlling "Internet Connect"

[Tom R. no spam]

"sudo" -->  treat me as eligible to do root-like things
"shutdown" -->  just what it says; enter "man shutdown" at a
    Terminal command prompt to read the manual (man pages) for it
"-h" -->  actually halt = full shutdown, which is distinct from a
    variety of other versions of "shutting down".
"now" -->  do it without delay, an alternative being to specify
    some future time for it to happen (time value as on the remote
    machine, not the one from which you are ssh'ing, of course)

Basically, a command-line way to do what you do when you select
"Shut Down" in GUI.

The "-r" option to shutdown is supposed to reboot the remote unit
at the specified time, but I can't say anything about this working
or not on Macs.

It is possible to set up ssh'ing between two computers so you don't
have to do the password stuff each time, but this is tricky and less
secure when used in less restricted situations than your home situation.

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Peter Nacken wrote:

> on 1/11/04 5:22 AM, Larry Kollar at kollar at alltel.net wrote:
 . . .
> > Regardless, what should always work is:
> >
> > 1) Open Terminal on your iBook in bed.
> > 2) ssh to the iBook connected to the ISDN modem (ssh 10.0.1.1 or
> > whatever it's IP address is)
> > 3) type "sudo shutdown -h now" and enter your password when asked.
> > 4) Wait for Terminal to say "connection closed" then you can close
> > your iBook and go to sleep. ;-)
>
> Always having large respect when it comes to these sudo, rm, ssh stuff
> (basically having no clue besides that I am aware that I can do a lot of
> damage with it)  ... So .. What exactly does this do?  And could I also use
> this to reconnect in the morning ??