On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:14:54PM +0100, Richard Bos wrote: > Pupils should learn that a computer is to be shutdown nicely before it is > powered down, isn't it? Other wise they are going to power down all kind of > OSes while they are still running.
If the Pupil in question is a "computer student" then YES If the Pupil in question is a "student using a computer" then NO Most of the computers we use everyday, we turn off by simply slapping the power switch off. We treat them as appliances and that is really what they should behave as for general use, including when being used as a "teaching appliance" or "Learning appliance". (Examples:, car, tv, stereo, PDA, cellphone etc..) All my Linux boxes are setup to run shutdown when the poweroff switch is pressed or when Ctrl-Alt-Delete is pressed. For C-A-D this is setup in /etc/inittab : # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now NOTE: -r = reboot, use -h for halting I'm not sure where the "poweroff switch" trap gets configured but it is using either /sbin/shutdown -h now or init 0 (Clearly this only works on hardware where the poweroff switch is a software controlled relay, (aka "soft switch"), rather than a true power switch, but most PC's shipped for at least the last 8 years have relays and not switches.) Given that in most cases the students in question are not studying computers, we should probably try to have the computers act as much like appliances as possible. This means, for any Thin client hardware which has a "soft switch" they should be configured to run their own shutdown process when "powered off". -- http://kinz.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
