Automatic periodic reboot howto?
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Why do you want to do this?
However, look at diagnostics>edit file and open "/etc/crontab" and schedule your reboot there if needed.
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If you want to use wget remotely (btw: this was sent to the mailing list this week, slightly modified):
wget -qO /tmp/config_backup.xml –user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.1/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"
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Why do you want to do this?
However, look at diagnostics>edit file and open "/etc/crontab" and schedule your reboot there if needed.
I've run this command "/sbin/reboot" on the Diagnostics: Execute command just to chekout if the line that would be added to the "/etc/crontab" would do no arm to the system and the system just hanged.
If you want to use wget remotely (btw: this was sent to the mailing list this week, slightly modified):
wget -qO /tmp/config_backup.xml –user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.1/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"
wget ?!? what's the purpose of wget in getting it rebooted automatically?
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Why do you want to do this?
However, look at diagnostics>edit file and open "/etc/crontab" and schedule your reboot there if needed.
I've run this command "/sbin/reboot" on the Diagnostics: Execute command just to chekout if the line that would be added to the "/etc/crontab" would do no arm to the system and the system just hanged.
If you want to use wget remotely (btw: this was sent to the mailing list this week, slightly modified):
wget -qO /tmp/config_backup.xml –user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.1/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"
wget ?!? what's the purpose of wget in getting it rebooted automatically?
wget executes the "shutdown -r now" command via diagnostics>command for you. See it like a kind of "remote procedure call". Btw, this is also the command you should run in crontab.
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If you want to use wget remotely (btw: this was sent to the mailing list this week, slightly modified):
wget -qO /tmp/config_backup.xml –user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.1/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"
Sorry to bring this thread up again but when I run the command below from my windows machine I get…"/tmp/config_backup.xml: No such file or directory.
I would like to remotely shutdown my pfsense machine from my windows machine.
wget -qO /tmp/config_backup.xml --user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.1/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"
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/tmp/ is a unix directory. you most likely want to substitute it for something like c:\mybackup\ etc
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Thanks I created the config_backup.xml as an empty file and now it works.
Many thanks. -
Hint: Never ever edit /etc/crontab directly. It is getting regenerated during each reboot. So your changes may be lost after a reboot.
Cheers
Daniel S. Haischt -
I created the config_backup.xml file locally on my windows machine and put it in the same folder as wget.
Running this works…
wget -qO config_backup.xml --user=admin --password=pfsense --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.0.2/exec_raw.php?cmd=shutdown -r now"Is that OK to do?
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Yes!