Re: [K12OSN] How to correctly shutdown a client machine?
Eric Harrison (eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us)
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:57:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Eli Stair wrote:
>Similar to the topic of how to avoid shutting down the server:
>
>What is the correct procedure to shut down/restart a client?
>I've tried copying /sbin/shutdown to /opt/ltsp/i386/bin and
>making it SUID root, logging in to the client (rsh) and running
>it but that only hangs the open terminal. All required libs for
>shutdown are already in /opt/ltsp/i386/lib.
>
>Any ideas?
There is no need to "shutdown" the clients, just log out and power them
off. Or just log out and leave them on.
The unfortunate side-effect of this is that kids may get into the habit
of just powering off any-old machine without shutting it down.
I've been asked this one before and I can't think of a good technological
solution to it. It is a training issue, for better or worse.
Since running systems through constant power on/power off cycles is hard
on the hardware, maybe it would be best to just train the kids not to
turn the computers off - tell them that the teachers would do that at the
end of the day?
-Eric
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