[K12OSN] How can I force ltsp clients to power off?

[Jim Kinney]

shutdown -h now from a cron job on the server that's run on each client. The
server should have ssh keys installed for root onto the clients so it's
pretty easy to script up a shutdown process.

Alternatively, add a cronjob in the /etc/crontab for the clients that shuts
down daily at say, 8 pm. But then you must have time synched properly.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Phydeaux <reb at taco.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After spending a couple of hours cleaning the dust out of our client
> machines
> and reading the discussions here about power savings, it occurs to me that
> I'm missing something.  Despite my encouraging both students and teachers
> to
> turn off our client machines at the end of each day, nothing is ever turned
> off.
>
> How can I force our ltsp client machines to power off?  I'm happy to pick a
> timeframe of two or three hours of inactivity. At that point I don't really
> care what the machine is doing -- I just want it off.  I would imagine that
> there is some way to set this within the client image (not that I care
> where it is set).  I've done some digging and have not found any way of
> doing this, though.
>
> We're running ltsp5 on Fedora 13, if it matters.
>
> Help!
>
> reb
>
>
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