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johannes wrote:Ok, sorry for the delay, but now it's done. See this howto for details.

Many thanks, I'll take a look...

Hi Björn,

Another way to reprogram the flash without a running system is to use the AT91's built in boot-loader. This however requires special software to run at your workstation, but requires nothing more in hardware than a slightly modified USB cable. We can release this software and a short ...

Following up on this, the web admin script in /usr/lib/web-admin/backend.pl has code to do a shutdown. The relevant part, as a shell script, is as follows:


#!/bin/sh
MAGIC=/sys/devices/platform/buttons/bubbabuttons0/magic
if [ -e $MAGIC ]; then
echo 19088743 >> $MAGIC
/sbin/reboot
else
/sbin ...

yeah, it works the same manually

I have never tried it in a cron-job, but why not just use "poweroff" instead of shutdown?

That does the same as "shutdown -h": powers down the disk, but leaves the LED blinking and the main power on. I was hoping for something that would turn the machine off totally, like holding down the power ...

Hi,

Is there any way of powering down a bubba by software at a fixed time each day? My initial thought was to put "shutdown -P now" in root's crontab, but that seems to put the machine into single user mode rather than powering off (i.e. I can still ping it!). Using "shutdown -h now" powers off the ...