Network Shutdown

I used Novel Netware a little while ago, and I saw that it had a
feature where you could shut down computers at the admin's will. I've
been looking for a way to implement this in linux. My network is a
bunch of thin clients with a readonly root mounted over NFS, and they
all use LDAP authentication to log in the users. The way I have this
implemented now, is to check the LDAP server. It looks in a specific
directory for a 'command' class, and if the host matches, it executes
that command. I have the script running in a crontab every minute, but
this seems to be a bit messy to me. Is there some other way to do it?
Like making some central daemon they all connect to, and then check for
something similar to a magic packet?

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Page Cannot Be Displayed
    ... Turn all Computers OFF and Unplug the Router from the Power Cord ... Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1: ... Step1: Then Try this Start The RUN Command and type in the following: ... and look for the DNS Server is there is any thing in front of it like Enable ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser)
  • Re: Page Cannot Be Displayed
    ... Turn all Computers OFF and Unplug the Router from the Power Cord ... Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1: ... Step1: Then Try this Start The RUN Command and type in the following: ... and look for the DNS Server is there is any thing in front of it like Enable ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser)
  • RE: ------- PsShutdown -----
    ... Not sure why psshutdown would return that error on so many of your computers. ... Dim objFSO, objSourceFile ... Set colOperatingSystem = Nothing ... abort it before issuing a different command. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • RE: Applying a GPO to all computers in the domain?
    ... I tried the gpresult command and got the following information: ... It does say Group Policy was applied from: ... >> created a new Organisational Unit and dragged all the client computers into ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Printing positive from 2000 but negative from XP
    ... I have a custom thermal printer for which I tried to make a custom driver ... The data that goes to the printer has to consist in a start block command ... actual pixels that have to be printed followed 2368 bytes of FF. ... *Feature: Resolution ...
    (microsoft.public.development.device.drivers)