Does anyone have any good ideas for tracking them when they only use the shell 
and the rdesktop screen script.  


Richard Shade

Project Lead - CTI Systems

Effective Teleservices, Inc.

1903  Berry Dr. 

Nacogdoches, TX 75965

(w)  936-559-2280

(c)  936-371-1817

 "Playing by the Rules"


-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Montes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:50 PM
To: Richard Shade
Cc: Chris Gregan; Verner Kj�rsgaard; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client auto Shutdown?

Some of us on the k12ltsp list are using the TeacherTool python script. 
Not a cron job, but there's some usefull stuff you can take from there as well.

here's my  modified version of Robert Melton's script:

http://school.qop.org/lmontes/TeacherTool

and a screenshot of the main window running

http://school.qop.org/lmontes/teachertool.png


Luis



Richard Shade wrote:

>Here is a hack that will work. I am working on a better way to do this. This 
>is in bash. 
>###ON Server
>Create directory: 
>Mkdir /var/log/tracking
>
>###Run this from bash. 
>ipAddress=$(ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet/ { print $2 }' | awk -F ":" '{ 
>print $2 }') echo "$ipAddress" > /var/log/tracking/ip.log
>
>###Export /var/log/tracking rw in /etc/exports
>
>Cd /opt/ltsp/i386/bin
>vi trackip
>###Add the following lines:
>#Insert IP
>ipAddress=$(ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet/ { print $2 }' | awk -F ":" '{ 
>print $2 }') while read line do if [ "$line" != "$ipAddress" ] then 
>echo "$ipAddress" >> /var/log/tracking/ip.log fi done < 
>/var/log/tracking/ip.log
>
>###Save
>Chmod 0777 trackip
>Cd /opt/ltsp/i386/etc
>Edit rc.local
>/opt/ltsp/i386/bin/touchip
>
>###Put this next file wherever you feel safe putting it ###Shutdown 
>script #read shutdown and re-create ipAddress=$(ifconfig eth0 | awk 
>'/inet/ { print $2 }' | awk -F ":" '{ print $2 }') while read line do 
>if ["$line" != "$ipAddress"] then
>  ping -c 2 -W 2 -q "$line"    
>       if [ $? -eq 0 ]
>       then 
>       ltspinfo --host="$line" --shutdown
>       fi
>fi
>done < /var/log/tracking/ip.log
>echo "$ipAddress" > /var/log/tracking/ip.log
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Richard Shade
>
>Project Lead - CTI Systems
>
>Effective Teleservices, Inc.
>
>1903  Berry Dr. 
>
>Nacogdoches, TX 75965
>
>(w)  936-559-2280
>
>(c)  936-371-1817
>
> "Playing by the Rules"
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris 
>Gregan
>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:55 PM
>To: Verner Kj�rsgaard
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client auto Shutdown?
>
>Certainly....
>
>Verner Kj�rsgaard wrote:
>  
>
>>Torsdag 26 maj 2005 18:33 skrev Chris Gregan:
>>
>>Hi Richard and list,
>>
>>- and when you do, please be kind enough and share with the rest of us 
>>what you did.
>>
>>- being able to do such a thing, say at midnight, is a pearl.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Verner Kjaersgaard
>>Denmark.
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Both excellent suggestions, thanks! I'll try each one out.
>>>
>>>Richard Shade wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Chris, Do you have a list of the clients if so then edit your 
>>>>lts.conf and set ALLOW_SHUTDOWN = Y.
>>>>Then you can make a script that loops thru the list and executes 
>>>>"ltspinfo -h $HOST --shutdown"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Richard Shade
>>>>
>>>>Project Lead - CTI Systems
>>>>
>>>>Effective Teleservices, Inc.
>>>>
>>>>1903  Berry Dr.
>>>>
>>>>Nacogdoches, TX 75965
>>>>
>>>>(w)  936-559-2280
>>>>
>>>>(c)  936-371-1817
>>>>
>>>>"Playing by the Rules"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris 
>>>>Gregan
>>>>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:37 AM
>>>>To: [email protected]
>>>>Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client auto Shutdown?
>>>>
>>>>Hello all,
>>>>I was wondering if there was a way to power down the clients on a 
>>>>system on a schedule (ala Cron). I realize there is no Cron running 
>>>>on the client, but I was hoping there was a way to apply a Cron job 
>>>>on the host, to all of the clients.
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Chris
>>>>
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