[SLUG] Linux in the CyberCafe...

["Jeff Waugh" <jdub@nospam.student.usyd.edu.au>]

Say for a moment that I was "sysadmin" (if you could call it that,
I would, but there's only about 12 computers involved) of a
CyberCafe, and say that I was... frustrated with Windows NT on the
proxy/modem server. Not an unlikely scenario at all...

I'm experimenting with Linux in these roles at home (previously
I've just used it as a workstation, and haven't looked into squid,
masquerading, etc), and I've got an idea that I think might work,
only the solution is eluding me.

I'd like to have a quick and easy way of sucking a given computer's
hard drive image from the server should anything strange happen...
Often enough I can't be there to solve the big problems, and the
Cafe staff (yes... cafe as in coffee) have to switch a machine off,
which *always* looks bad.

Would there be a way of doing this simply, like throwing in a
bootdisk and scripting up an automatic disk image copy? I've had a
quick peek around the mini-distros and none of them mention this
kind of functionality, so I thought I'd ask the oracle: SLUG.

Oh, and the CyberCafe is in Shearer's bookstore, Leichhardt... Just
in case you were wondering! :)


Thanks all,

Jeff


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