How do I remote close the server

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Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:35 pm
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How do I remote close the server

Sometimes my headless Mac mini gets in such a state that I can't remote connect. I can run the indigo client on my iMac and would like to be able to turn off the server from there so that I can free resources on the Mac mini and hopefully log in.
Is there a way?

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Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:48 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

Remote access=
Ssh
Screen share
Teamviewer
?


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Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:59 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

Remote access either VNC or team viewer. Using both on iPhone or iMac. Neither works.
Can still SSH but only really gives me option to do forced reboot. Would like to remote in and at least do a more graceful restart.

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Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:21 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

Does indigo client still work?

I had some cases where vnc did not work, but I indigo did.

Then I ssh to the server and do a sudo reboot now
You could do that to through an indigo action - You can pipe the password into the ssh command
Can send a a script later tonight that does that




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Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:36 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

Yes indigo client still works, and the iOS app.

Yes I can ssh to the mac mini and do sudo reboot now, which is what I did this evening. And with postgres rather than sqlite that is normally ok, as it all restarts by itself, but would be nice to be able to do a more graceful shutdown.

I do have indigoserver setup as a Mac App with that plugin, and used to be able to turn it off, which led to indigo client immediately losing connection too, but that no longer works.

Was trying to avoid the ssh reboot route.

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Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:37 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

If you're going to use the kill command, you might want to try a kill -15 first (that's a signal to the server to gracefully shut down and is the default if you don't specify a number). A kill -9 is basically a force quit which won't be a clean shutdown.

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Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:06 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

Cheers both. Yes,I do sometimes look for id of worst process and kill that but not clean.

Jay, when you say graceful shut down of server, you mean whole Mac? Is there a way to add a command on the remote indigo app to shut down remote server, rather than local one?

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Sun Nov 25, 2018 7:16 pm
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Re: How do I remote close the server

check : https://forums.indigodomo.com/viewtopic.php?f=164&t=21686 to do this in a standard indigo action.

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