Adam Thompson wrote:
No, there's an elegant solution to this problem I just don't know what it is yet. -Adam
If a shell script (or Peters idea of a Python script) can be executed at run time as root (no sudo required) a number of init scripts can be run at that time. The first one can run a notify after 25 minutes. The second could shut down after 30. A third could clean out the users home directory. Maybe in reverse order...
How about [up to] 45 Neoware thin-client machines you could run off an Ubuntu server?
Wishful thinking on the part of the guys in the lab. Myself included. Then we could also use a thin client server and get rid of XP (directly) from the class rooms.
Would that be another way to solve your problem?
Maybe. I'll have to think about it. We'd have to increase the number of public access machines to a number greater than two though... That means another room and a supervisor.
(Er... is there any way I could wrangle a tax receipt out of this if I donate some hardware?)
I don't know. I'll have to ask. Best answer I can give you now is probably not but the possibility is there. Roy should be at tonights meeting. He is one of three people who would know. He talks with Alvin (the guy in charge) every couple of days. The CLL may run the public access program but they aren't the ones in charge of it. One layer on top of another and all that...
-Adam
Later Mike