Since the Lenny version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux, a @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ in the morning. This is done using the shutdown-at-night Debian package.
To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to -the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, This is done in +the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, this is done in LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and shut it down if it is. If the hardware in question is supported by @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ the common setup for a classroom. The nvram-wakeup method only work for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock. I've seen old machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot. If you have one of -those, you have to turn on the computer manually.
. +those, you have to turn on the computer manually.The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can -be used also outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a +also be used outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file /etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night to enable it. -Perhaps you can use it to save some power too?
+Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?