< class='quote'>[b:]NeonJack wrote:[/b:]
Following on from this, what would be particularly nice would be to intercept machine shutdown (or shutdown and restart) so that putty can be configured to logon to the console (OPA0) as system and issue a shutdown command, followed by a console firmware exit, before the host machine finally shuts up.
I am looking into this, but if anybody has the answer that would be great.<img src='../images/smiley/smile.gif' alt='smiley'>
I have found a solution to this:-
You need ExtraPuTTY which has a script facility. Set the script to login to the system console as SYSTEM and then issue a SHUTDOWN command. put a 40 second or so wait command in then issue 'exit' (without quotes) at the firmware console prompt to make the emulator itself spindown. Windows will then stop the service as part of its shutdown.
Then, you create a batch file that calls putty (from the \extraputty\ directory) on the command line, specify -load "name of session" -startup "name of shutdown script" and then put this batch file into the shutdown files (searchon the Internet for "adding Windows shutdown tasks" to find out how to do this) so that it executes before Windows completes its shutdown.
Note that FreeAXP as a service relies on you not needing to change the configuration interactively, so, for example, it's no good putting in a "ask at runtime" selection for the NIC to use when FreeAXP starts running..<img src='../images/smiley/smile.gif' alt='smiley'>
