Unfortunately, the ISP is sort of an independent outfit, and while they are not small in any sense of the word, their equipment room is stacked full of servers from floor to ceiling. I'm not aware of any power related switches where one could ssh into a "box" and cycle the power for one server. I know I really should take this dual Xeon server here in my cave and move it downtown, but I miss having the horsepower when I need it, as I still dabble with numerical weather models, and it takes a lot of number crunching cpu cycles to accomplish that task. It's also possible that the ACPI of the bios is partly to blame, but when I put the machine down there, I actually had maybe 2 hours, or the time it took to install CentOS on the drive and get the FS set up for the task. Only later did I learn there was a problem remote rebooting. I appreciate everyone's responses, and I suppose I'll just have to deal with the problems as they occur. I've switched back to digest mode, as of this morning, so if you don't get any response from me till the day after, that is the reason. Many thanks Sam