Hi Jake,
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006, Jake Redekop wrote:
> I have a thin client network up and running and am now tasked with the job
> of locking it down.
By "locking it down", do you mean secure it?
> I'd like to "reset" the clients each night at shut down or start up and
> was wondering what would be the best way to do this. I suspect I'd use a
> cron job, but what I'd actually have to do to acheive this I'm a little
> unsure about. Is all that I'd have to do is backup and restore the i386
> directory? Any advice would be appreciated.
Why would you need to do this? When a thin client reboots it _is_ reset
completely back to a zero state. /opt/ltsp/i386/ is entirely read-only to
the thin clients.
If you want to shutdown or reboot the thin clients every night, you can use
a cron job to do this, yes. If you open /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/crontab ob the
server and add a line:
00 22 * * * root shutdown -h now
cron should halt the machine at 10pm every night. You can change -h to -r
to reboot if you prefer. I'm assuming cron actually runs on the thin
clients -- I'm not totally certain of this.
Alternatively, if ltsp-utils works on edubuntu thin clients, the server can
send a message to the thin client to shutdown:
http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/sarge/x2700.html#AEN2845
but I'm not certain if edubuntu's ltsp currently supports this. Oliver
might be able to comment.
Gavin
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