Posted by: laserfan
Graceful shutdown of Rio Central??? - 26/06/2007 23:40
Living in an area of frequent storms & power failures and wondering about subject. I can't find anything to suggest there is any more graceful way to shut-down the Central than to pull the plug on it!!! Izzat so? I can't Telnet into it and try 'shutdown -h now' or some such...?
Just looking for a better way to do this given I have a UPS with Command capability. Anyone?
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Graceful shutdown of Rio Central??? - 27/06/2007 15:09
Does your Central do something bad if it's not gracefully shut down?
I'm pretty sure it's designed so that yanking the power doesn't hurt it in any way.
Do you ever worry about gracefully shutting down your CD player, your TV, or for that matter, your refrigerator? The central was meant to be an appliance, just like those.
If there is something that's going wrong with your central after coming back from a power outage, we can look at that particular problem and try to fix it.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Graceful shutdown of Rio Central??? - 28/06/2007 15:43
Sorry. Briefly got "serial shell" and "telnet shell" mixed up. I'm always switching those terms around, since to me, the look exactly the same. I know the difference between them (the former is a hard wired connection requiring physical proximity, the latter is a network connection requring the proper server-side software to be installed and running), I just think of them in the same way. I probably shouldn't.
Anyway, to clarify it for the original poster: You can get a shell prompt right on its screen (via a USB keyboard), you can do a serial connection (with the right hardware dongle connected to certain pins on the motherboard), and you can do a telnet connection (if you can figure out how to install/activate a telnet server via the USB keyboard).