How do I gracefully exit/shutdown a "remote" machine?

[Henry Spencer]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   To keep the PIII functional as a "hot backup" machine, I boot it once
> a week, ssh into it from the P4, su to root, run gentoo linux updates,
> and shut it down.  What happens is that "halt -p" shuts down the PIII
> and I have to go to another tty (on the P4), "ps -ef", get the PID of
> the ssh logon to the PIII, and issue a "kill -3" on it...

Don't try to do it interactively.  Sign off from the interactive session,
and then "ssh root at p3box poweroff" (substituting the appropriate name for
"p3box").  Works for me. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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