Re: Shutdown clients by cronjob

Dashamir Hoxha <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.terminal-server.general
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, 16:18 Rolf-Werner Eilert <[email protected] wrote:

> Just an idea... Is it possible to have clients shutdown by some cronjob?
>
> This might be good to avoid them being brutally disconnected from mains
> by someone who just switches off the tables or lab and doesn't care.
>
> Is there a way to find out how long a client has been idle?
>
> Or is there at least a way to find out that a client is on and idle?
>

http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/User_Experience#Shutting_down_idle_clients

Does this answer your question?

Besides this, on desktop settings usually there are options for taking some
actions when idle, for example locking the screen, or logging out, or
sleeping, or halting, etc. Maybe the problem can be solved by tuning these
options, without complicated cron jobs or client-server processes.


> Regards
> Rolf
>
>
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