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Originally Posted by
gerperrett
as it seems to me that the simple stuff is slowing me down.
Somehow the simple stuff seems to elude you, otherwise how comes you have questions? ;-))
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Originally Posted by
gerperrett
I want to be able to shutdown, or restart a computer on a network if I am at the server.
Any details? Which OS does the client run? How fast do you want it to shut down? Fast? Faster? Fastest? Here are some some possibilities, sorted by velocity:
shutdown -h now
halt -q
print - "stand still!" > /dev/kmem
And which OS the server runs would help answering your question too, as every OS has its own facilities. There is a *little* difference between VMS, *ix, Plan 9, MVS, etc..
Btw., which authentication are you going to use? Kerberos? SSL? Nothing (like in: anybody can shut down everything at will?)
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but you don't come across like someone who has studied Computer Science almost to the end and is writing a thesis.
bakunin