Shutdown doesn't seem to work when invoked from ssh session

[Michael F. March]

Let me amend my last email..

Shutdown works if I am logged into the console.. it has
nothing todo with VNC..

thanks!

> Here is something kind of freaky.. If I am at the same time
> logged into server that is running sshd using VNC, shutdown
> through an SSH session, *DOES* work.
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 10 07:33, Egerton, James wrote:
>>
>>> I've tried using the Cygwin shutdown-1.4 from an ssh session and it
>>> doesn't seem to do anything.   The call to ExitWindowsEx doesn't appear
>>> to fail, but nothing happens after the "WARNING!!!..." message is
>>> displayed.   I have verified that the system can be rebooted from ssh if
>>> InitiateSystemShutdown is called instead of ExitWindowsEx and this
>>> appears to be consistent with the ExitWindowsEx description:
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> I'll upload a new shutdown tool within the next few days, probably.
>>
>> Corinna
>>
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