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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Suggest a method of automatically rebooting a Mac running 7.5.5 on a repeating schedule? | Posted by: Huxley on 2019-08-12 16:59:08
As most of you guys probably know, I've got my Mac SE/30 setup as a web server. It's working great overall, but it tends to choke after a couple hours when under heavy load. The easy / simple fix is to just reboot the machine, but when I'm away at work (or like this week, traveling out of state), the machine just chokes and sits there - the OS is fully responsive, but MacHTTP isn't serving new visitors.
Given this, I'm wondering: is there a simple strategy I could employ to just set the Mac to reboot itself every couple hours? I'm not sure if this is something AppleScript could handle, or if there's a shareware app or something I should be looking for. Thanks for any tips or suggestions!
Huxley
| Posted by: dcr on 2019-08-12 17:32:41
There used to be a program called KeepItUp that was used on servers. It may have required System 7 but I'm not sure. It was an INIT, I believe, and it would detect when a dialog window opened up that needed attention and if no one clicked the window closed, KeepItUp would reboot the machine. Or something like that. I don't remember if it had any scheduling capabilities. I think it mainly detected when a program (usually EIMS or WebStar) had crashed and a dialog box opened up.
It was a nifty program. I don't remember who made it. I thought for sure I had a copy on my mail/web server, but I don't. I am pretty sure I had a licensed copy on my FirstClass server but that hard drive crashed long ago and I have not been able to find either my license number or even a copy of KeepItUp. It was shareware, as I recall, and there were certain limitations until you bought a full license. I've searched online over the years and have yet to track down the name of the original author/company. I hope they are still around out there somewhere because I would really like to get another license number to use it on my mail/webserver.
| Posted by: kb3wmh on 2019-08-13 14:19:19
I think one of the ADB pins is related to a power switch, maybe you could try using a microcontroller to control that pin? But I'm not sure it can shutdown the computer. It might be worth investigating.
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2019-08-15 10:26:48
In case anyone else was wondering, I believe @Huxley found a solution to his problem with a PowerKey, which is a programmable power strip that connects over the ADB port. I figured I post here as well incase anyone else was interested. We're putting together a group order.
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