[ale] remote shutdown

[alex at cad.nospam.gatech.edu (alex at cad.nospam.gatech.edu)]

jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
> 
> I have a small machine at home RH6 that is doing ip_masq. And my sister
> in law wants to use the internet from her computer. She knows how to
> turn on the linux box but she does not know how to shut it down. I
> personally run the halt command which shutsdown and turns off the
> machine. I need a solution that will do just that, where she clicks on
> her desktop(Win98) and it rsh the halt command, any ideas ?

If you are not running X, and she has access to the console, have
her use the three-finger-salute.  On my box it's equivalent to
"shutdown -h now".  Tell her to wait for the "halted" message then
power off.

-Alexander