On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote: > |> Then people will use the power off switch. And I can't cut that off > |> because it's used to switch the workstations off when the lab closes! > > I happened to be in the public library of the Beaubourg in Paris this > summer, looking for some free net access. > > They provide a roomfull of machines from which people can use > netscape, telnet and so on for free. I was interested to notice that > all of these machines were running Linux (don't know what > flavour). And I was fascinated and horrified to notice that every user > ended their session by simply hitting the power-off button. Finesse > gallique. The machines rebooted without complaint every time > though. Each machine must have this happen to it at least 30 or 40 > times a day. > > So there must be some way to do it, > > Jim
Maybe the local drive is read-only and the writable stuff is on a server. Paul