Bug#703710: killer CRON disabled on diskless workstations

To: 703710@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#703710: killer CRON disabled on diskless workstations
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:58:56 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 2fliojkql8f.fsf@diskless.uio.no>
Reply-to: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 703710@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <201303230752.43990.holger@layer-acht.org>
References: <20130322161730.71496o3msh4a7022@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de> <201303230752.43990.holger@layer-acht.org>

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.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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