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Feature #301

Enabling Server Mode on PowerPC Macs

Added by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
01/13/2014
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
0.50 h
Spent time:

Description

The VPS Infrastructure has recently encountered a power outage, and having no UPS backup led to an immediate outage of all web services. Only two machines were online when I arrived at the server space, the router (which is good) and a new unconfigured VPS node. Unfortunately the primary server that receives SSH traffic is web1, a PowerPC server. I found that PowerPC machines have the ability to turn back on when the Power Management Unit is set in the right way. The tool needed is in the powerpc-utils package:

sudo apt-get install powerpc-utils

Automatic boot enabled (Server Mode)

The command to set automatically power on after power loss, run:

autoboot -v on

Boot script to automatically set autoboot

  • Create boot script:
    vi /etc/init.d/autoboot
    
  • Add:
    #! /bin/sh
    #
    PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
    set -e
    case "$1" in
      start|restart|force-reload|reload)
            echo -n "Autoboot..." 
            /sbin/autoboot -v on
            echo
            ;;
      stop)
            exit 0
            ;;
      *)
            N=/etc/init.d/autoboot
            echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
    exit 0
    
  • Make the script bootable
    chmod +x /etc/init.d/autoboot
    
  • And the symbolic link in /etc/rcS.d:
    ln -s /etc/init.d/autoboot /etc/rcS.d/S60autoboot
    

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Updated by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago

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#2

Updated by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago

  • Project changed from 21 to GNet Solutions

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