Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] How to tell a Mac that the server is going down?
From: PayPC System Mail Subscriber (spammail@quanta.paypc.com)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 06:38:24 EST
Frank Indenkämpen said in [netatalk-admins] How to tell a Mac that the
server is going down? at 30/Oct/1998 (Fri) 21:14:22.
> I would like to inform the MacIntosh users connected to a Linux server when
> the
> server will be shutdown. Is there any way to pop up a window on the mac with a
> message or something like that.
Yes. When you kill afpd (once), it starts a 5 minute countdown. It alerts
all connected Macintoshes that a shutdown is in progress, and that they have
5 minutes to logout.
After that time, afpd logs them all out and shutsdown. I think if you kill
afpd a second time, that's an immediate die! request.
Adrian (or others who know better than I), clarify this if I'm incorrect.
BTW, all of this can be reconfigured at compile time (shutdown interval).
=Rob=
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