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From: nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (nathan engle)
Subject: Re: Automatic "down"
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 20:31:55 GMT
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In article <27841@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> heygel@rutishauser.inf.ethz.ch (Reto Heygel) writes:
>We would like to shutdown our novell (netware 386) system every night at
>let's say midnight. Our server is a NOVELL NCI-50 and we have connected
>20 IBM PS/2 to it. Does anyone out there knows, how this can be done
>automatically?
>
>Any help is appreciated very much!
>
>     Reto Heygel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

I would get a household light timer and set it to shut off the power to
the UPS at 11:30 and restore power at 12:15. Plenty of time to let the
UPS signal the server of a powerfail (thus kicking in the safe
shutdown). After a few minutes the UPS battery drains and the UPS croaks.
Everything quiet til 12:15 when the power is restored. Total cost for
the timer should be about $15. It might send your UPS battery to an
earlier grave than it would have otherwise, but they all die sooner
or later.

Nathan Engle             Software Evangelist
Indiana University       Dept of Psychology
nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu