Setting up a System w/ Wake-on-LAN and VNC?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday December 16, 2003 @03:40PM from the systems-on-demand dept.

andrebsd asks: "I'd like to make myself some sort of webpage where I could startup my system with 'Wake on Lan', and once it is started, use VNC to login. Once I'm done doing what I need the system for I would then like to shut it down again. I'm wondering how one might go about putting something like this together. VNC has various scripts for making that part work, but I haven't seen any scripts that can function as a 'Power on/Power off' button for a webpage. Thanks to anyone with any way of doing this." While there are helpful reference for Wake-on-LAN tools, how would you integrate all of these into a coherent system? How might one keep such a system (relatively) secure?

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New Wrinkle by cam_macleod · 2003-12-17 00:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Everybody seems to have great solutions for that question, so let's make it tougher:

How about when I've got only one system, and it connects using PPPoE to the outside world... can anybody solve *that* one?

How about if pull out the power plug before I leave for work in the morning?