Perl shutdown of servers

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello everyone,

I need a small program to gracefully shut down a server.
The shutdown program should take both an address and a port and that way it can shut down components on remote machines.

I've been digging through many websites and getting more and more puzzled:eek:.

Any help will be very appreciated.

THANK YOU

Minifish

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I have the same problem. Can anyone help????????????

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ssh root@host /sbin/shutdown
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Thanks, I think minifish mentioned shutting down server use perl.
do you know how we can do that? =)

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Same thing, if you think your going to write a script that is going to walk the init sequence you might just as well:

#!/usr/bin/perl
kill 9, 1;

Though that is not graceful by any means. You really should use the /etc/init.d/FILE, rndc, apachectl files rather than programming some sort of direct PID manipulation program (which will be ungraceful).

Use perl to ssh to the remote machine and issue the commands.

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look into the Net::SSH perl module:

Net::SSH - Perl extension for secure shell - search.cpan.org

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what does it take to shut down a server?
what does shut down actually mean?

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read the manual for whatever machine you are wanting to shutdown.