After a few requests to save power, I have made a package to enable clients to turn themself off in the evening when unused (from 16:00, and try again every hour until it is unused), and turn themselves on again using either nvram-wakeup if that is supported, or using wake-on-lan from a server.
This is just an early draft, and it need testing to get it working properly. It can be downloaded from http://people.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/packages/etch/shutdown-at-night_0.1_all.deb I am a bit unsure if the wake-on-lan stuff is correct. To wake up machines, create a file /etc/shutdown-at-night/clients on the server with one line per client, with the IP address asd MAC address separate by space, like this: 10.11.12.13 00:FF:00:FF:00:FF Then on the server, run /usr/lib/shutdown-at-night/wakeupclients to start up all the clients in the list, with a 30 second delay between each client. The code for this package is in SVN, svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-edu/trunk/src/shutdown-at-night More work is needed on the wake-on-lan bit, both on server and client. My plan is to use sitesummary information to generate /etc/shutdown-at-night/clients on the server. Any volunteers to test this? happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
