Hi All,

With a squeeze-r0 installation, the diskless-workstation have a
disabled killer cronjob (in /etc/cron.daily/killer~disabled).

Is this intentional?

Mike

control: -1 version 1.455

thats not a version of debian-edu-config.

seems legit, just by judging from the very existence of a file called "killer-
disabled" ;-)


cheers,
	Holger

The disabling of cron jobs on diskless workstations is done by the
script
/usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom/032-edu-pkgs in
the debian-edu-config package.  It also, as you say, disable the killer
cron job.  This is the comment on top of that code block:

    # Disable the cron jobs that should not be running on a diskless
    # workstation.  Keep rwhod, shutdown-at-night and
    # sitesummary-client.

Should we run killer on diskless workstations and thin clients?  I am
not sure.

Hi Petter,
Otherwise, diskless workstations (not sure about thin clients,
actually) will not get affected by shutdown-at-night if users forgot
to log out.

The expected behaviour would be for diskless workstations:

   o killer ends still-running / not-logged-off sessions after 6h of
session duration
   o shutdown-at-night turns of the diskless machine within the next hour

Greets,
Mike

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi.

As far as I know, it work reliably.  But not quite like you think it
is working.

Killer will kill processes for people not logged into the machine, not
throw out logged in users.  It get rid of leftover processes.

I am not sure killer is the autologout-mechanism you are looking for.
shutdown-at-night would work if you had such autologin mechanism.

Hi Mike,

you might want to test if the attached script would work as autologout
mechanism. (I've used it at a local school, so comments are in German.)

Wolfgang

Hello,

Bug #703710 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
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https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/a3082be90dd1754fe8eebdb35657cc20333a17bb

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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-edu-config, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 703710@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-edu-config package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:35:24 +0200
Source: debian-edu-config
Architecture: source
Version: 2.13.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Edu Developers <debian-edu@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>
Closes: 703710 1051836 1052962 1092123 1146398
Changes:
 debian-edu-config (2.13.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Serhii Horichenko ]
   * share/debian-edu-config/tools/run-at-firstboot:
     - Add an environment check to avoid starting the image creation on
       an LTSP-client (Closes: #1092123).
     - Add an ability to create a Diskless Workstation chroot and separate
       the creation of an image on an LTSP-server without the Main-Server
       role (Closes: #1092123).
 .
   [ Mike Gabriel ]
   * sbin/debian-edu-ltsp-install:
     - When creating a DLW, set PROFILE to 'Workstation' (Closes: #1092123).
   * share/debian-edu-config/tools/kerberos-kdc-init:
     - Don't hard-code master_key_type, use MIT/Kerberos' default. (Closes:
       #1052962).
   * Stop using killer script in Debian Edu. (Closes: #703710).
   * cf3/cf.ldapclient:
     - Ensure empty file /etc/netgroup exists. (Closes: #1146398).
   * exim4/exim-ldap-{server,client}-v4.conf:
     - Write logs to syslog. (Closes: #1051836).
   * run-at-firstboot:
     - Initialize first user's mailbox only when logging into Main-Server.
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