My remote Mac Mini, running Indigo Server, is misbehaving, and I'd like to reboot it. I do not have SSH access. I do have Indigo Client access to the server, however. I've tried using Indigo Client to create an action with an embedded Applescript fragment to force a restart (tell application "System Events" to restart), but it's not having any effect. Any ideas much appreciated. Thanks.

You might try telling the Finder to restart instead. System Events is unpredictable in the best of times.

Thanks for the reply. Sadly, no effect.

Sounds like your Mac is well and throughly hosed at the moment. There's probably some App running that's canceling the restart because it's hung up...

The only two things I can think of to fix that require either VNC (Screen Sharing) or ssh access.

Thanks, Jay. Yeah, I think I'm hosed, too. VNC and SSH not options. Gonna have to get physical access...

Have you ever checked in to one of the VNC redirector services? I use iTeleport from my iOS devices to get back to my Macs here at home without opening any firewalls (also have MobileMe/iCloud Back to My Mac access as well from other Macs outside my house). Like Prism for VNC...

This may not work because of permission problems, but try:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now"

If that doesn't work then there might be some way to use 'sudo' and pass in your username/password to the shell script but I'm not sure of the exact format.

This might work to pass in your password:

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do shell script "echo PASSWORD_HERE | sudo -S shutdown -r now"

Substitutde PASSWORD_HERE with your OS X admin account password. Do NOT put it in quotes.

This seems to have worked:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "USERNAME" password "PASSWORD" with administrator privileges

HFTobeason wrote:This seems to have worked:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "USERNAME" password "PASSWORD" with administrator privileges

Is this working for you in 10.7+? It's returning "username" variable not defined (-2753) when I try this in 10.7.2. I've removed the quotes in the actual code for UN and PW. I've also not tried this before in earlier versions of OSX.

@mrdubs - yes, it does work for me. For example, assuming your username is mrdubs and your password is mrdubspassword:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "mrdubs" password "mrdubspassword" with administrator privileges


Leave the quotes just as above.

HFTobeason wrote:@mrdubs - yes, it does work for me. For example, assuming your username is mrdubs and your password is mrdubspassword:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "mrdubs" password "mrdubspassword" with administrator privileges


Leave the quotes just as above.

Thanks for the rapid response! I will give this slight revision a shot later today.

mrdubs wrote:

HFTobeason wrote:@mrdubs - yes, it does work for me. For example, assuming your username is mrdubs and your password is mrdubspassword:

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do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "mrdubs" password "mrdubspassword" with administrator privileges


Leave the quotes just as above.

Thanks for the rapid response! I will give this slight revision a shot later today.

Worked perfectly! Thanks so much.