From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 22 11:24:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F87537B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from franka.aracnet.com (franka.aracnet.com [216.99.193.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10D043FBD for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcf@aracnet.com) Received: from grond.sourballs.org (216-99-206-44.cust.aracnet.com [216.99.206.44]) by franka.aracnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2MJM9Du013606; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:22:09 -0800 Received: from grond.sourballs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grond.sourballs.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2MJOCjJ013429; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcf@aracnet.com) Received: from localhost (dcf@localhost) by grond.sourballs.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE) with ESMTP id h2MJO8b8013426; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcf@aracnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: grond.sourballs.org: dcf owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) From: David Fleck To: mike mcgranahan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout In-Reply-To: <20030321142425.90578.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030322112122.N6836@grond.sourballs.org> References: <20030321142425.90578.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, mike mcgranahan wrote: > under windows it is possible to configure the system > to enter APM standby after a certain amount of system > inactivity. in linux their is a program called sleepd > which will initiate an APM standby after a > configurable period of system inactivity, which works > both on the console as well as while X is running. is > there any way to achieve the same effect under > freebsd, where the system will enter standby after, > say, 10 minutes of no activity? try 'man xset'. grep for the dpms options. In my AfterStep configuration, I use xset dpms 600 1200 1800 to set standby (10 min) suspend (20 min) and off (30 min) times. -- David Fleck dcf@aracnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message