[RndTbl] Public access machine

[Robert Keizer]

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> 	The CLL is setting up a public access machine in the next couple of 
> weeks. It is installed with Mint 8 (a multimedia Ubuntu fork). I would 
> like to set up a couple of init scripts. The first will delete the 
> public account home directory and copy a "clean" version in its place 
> each time the computer starts. The second will shut down the computer 
> after half an hour of use.
>
> 	I haven't touched on cron since university 20 years ago and I've never 
> written an init script. Having written a few shell scripts I know the 
> copy script should be very simple. I'm not sure how to set up the timer 
> script or make them run on start up. Would anybody be able to fire off 
> some quick directions?
>
> 	This may be a "foot in the door" situation.
>
> 				Later
> 				Mike
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A simple addition to root's crontab should allow you to reboot the 
machine every 30 minutes without any problem. You could also give the 
user a warning message if you wanted to with notify-send .. see 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-get-notifications-your-scripts-notify-send 
for reference.. or the september issue of LJ :)

All the best,
Robert Keizer