Ben There are several utilities on TuCows that would let you schedule automatic reboots/power downs on your problematic Windows workstation users. Look for a freeware product called "PowerDown". That might help you close that door. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ben [mailto:willcu@paradise.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:37 PM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] re: strange but true On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:33:12 -0800, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:57 pm, Ben wrote:

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:45:01 -0800, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net>

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I have set up another SuSE as a firewall to another node on the network and they are so impressed i nearly have the go ahead to convert the lot to SuSE. But to find out why this logged off problem is happening would help me explain to them why this has happend. Could it be a fault in the hardware or something like a false positive/reading???

Just because the user is logged off does not mean the computer is doing nothing. Both Windows and Linux have dozens of programs running even when all users are logged off.

If you want them off POWER THEM DOWN.

Any number of things can be going on... Checking for updates Renewing their dynamic IPs Synchronizing clocks Electing Browse masters Answering ARP requests.. Spewing Spam from a spam bot... --- The list goes on and on...

If the machine is on, its doing something, if you don't like that you have to turn it off. Power down. Pull the plug.

Ben, I'm a little worried about you. You talk like you are setting up your own IT department but then you come with a question like this... Scares me!

Yes i try an tell people to shut down but alas no luck, drives me up the wall, lol -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here