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I'm busy building a Web UI that can monitor certain apps on a number of machines via an RPC API.

I would like to implement functionality where the user can remotely reboot or shutdown the machine, I figured I would be able to create a 'client' app and expose an API which I can then send a reboot/shutdown command.

But I would like to stick to node.js for everything and create the client app in node.js as well.

Would this be possible using node?

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require('child_process').exec('halt -p', console.log) will execute shutdown locally. Instead of "halt -p" you can use any command you want, including ssh 1.2.3.4 halt -p to run that remotely.

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Thanks for the heads up on child process, I looked through the entire docs but must have missed that, I've marked the answer above as the answer as it provides more functionality, but I will try this too!
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Yes. There is a node-ssh client https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2 You can send shutdown -r now through that.

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Thanks! That looks like a great module.

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