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Posted Tuesday 24th April 2007 06:05 GMT
Tim Bates

cron job

We use a simple cron job at the school I work for. It runs through the IP addresses used by classroom type PCs running the Samba "net rpc shutdown" command (I think that's the command). It does this at 9pm each day.

As for turning back on... We just leave students to press the power button and wait a few minutes. They all know where the power button is, and 2-5 minutes waiting teaches them a bit of patience (OK, it probably just annoys the "I want it now" generation, but I don't care).

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