thank you gary! i didn't know that you can set a time at the shutdown command.
i've decided to put it in a custom boot script combined with a ntpdate command, so nobody wants to kill me for killing his session. regards, stefan On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 17:10, Gary Horneman <gahorne...@rosaryhs.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have worked on this same issue for several years and finally have an > answer that works. > > Create a command line application with the following command line > **** > echo 0pen%TC | sudo -S shutdown -P -h 18:00 "Scheduled 6:00 pm shutdown" > **** > Set it to Autostart. Assoicate the application with the thinclient. > > Of course you will change the shutdown time to whatever time would like. > > Some history. > Shutdown must be executed by an administrator of the system. That is why the > sudo is needed. > In the past, while I could shut down the thinclient using this command (on > OTC 0.4.5), the NIC was not correctly conditioned on most of my clients for > WOL (wake-on-LAN) to work. In fact for some of them, I had to pull the > power cord in order to start up successfully. People on this list pointed me > to the ethtool which did allow the NIC to be correctly conditioned. At this > point, I got stuck because while I could figure out the correct ethtool > command line, I couldn't get it executed. > In 0.4.5, more than one autostart (sudo?) command line application caused > all of them to fail. (I have not tried this on OTC 1.0) I tried various > combinations of multiple commands in one line but couldn't get it to work. > I had a few other options to try but never got around to them. > With OTC 1.0, it correctly conditions all my NICs - even the ones that I > used to have to pull the power cord on, so I only need the single autostart > application to shut down the client. I then have a scheduled task on a > windows server that issues the WOL in the morning. > > It would be nice if autoshutdown was a configurable item for a client but I > am happy with this solution for now. > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Stefan Vater <s...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> hi otc expterts, >> >> i've a question: >> >> i want to auto shutdown my otc clients in the evening (as my users are >> to lazy or stu**** to do so). >> bit as i see it, there is no crond or atd in otc ?! >> >> is there an other possibility to get this done? >> >> >> regards, >> stefan >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org >> openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user > > > > -- > Gary Horneman > Technology Director > Rosary High School > 630 896-0831 x27 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org > openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
