[debian-edu-commits] debian-edu/ 22/64: * Improve setup instructions in the README.

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commit 2f1807c168f6194b4fe12b5d4049088a729ed592
Author: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 14 22:37:40 2008 +0000

      * Improve setup instructions in the README.
    
    git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-edu/trunk/src/shutdown-at-night@41483 6e500793-9bee-0310-a5b0-9d0909bd054d
---
 README           |   16 ++++++++++++----
 debian/changelog |    1 +
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3a3b226..1205a4c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,14 +21,22 @@ There are some considerations to make when doing this:
    the clients to wake up and for all the clients to have support for
    wake-on-lan.
 
-To enable automatic shutdown, touch
+How to set it up
+----------------
+
+On clients that should turn off at night, touch
 /etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night, or add the hostname to the
-netgroup "host-shutdown-at-night".
+netgroup "host-shutdown-at-night".  The clients might need to have
+wake-on-lan configured in the BIOS.  It is also important that the
+switches and routers used between the wake-on-lan server and the
+clients will pass the WOL packages to the clients even if the clients
+are turned off.
 
-To enable wakeonlan, add the clients to
+To enable wake-on-lan on the server, add the clients to
 /etc/shutdown-at-night/clients, with one line per client, IP address
 first, and MAC address (ethernet address) next, with space between
-them.
+them, or create a script /etc/shutdown-at-night/clients-generator to
+generate the list of clients on the fly.
 
 License
 -------
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b34af1f..33c6b6e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ shutdown-at-night (0.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     not be enabled.
   * Add 'cron | fcron' as dependency, to make sure the cron jobs
     run as they should.
+  * Improve setup instructions in the README.
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:11:41 +0200
 

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