Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) From: David Fleck <dcf@aracnet.com> To: mikemcg@ucla.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Portland Linux / Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout Message-ID: <20030323093702.I358@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20030323092549.53492.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030323092549.53492.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, mike mcgranahan wrote: > thanks for the info. i do use xset for controlling > dpms in X, but i am interested in something that will > a) put the system into standby, not just the monitor, > and b) work regardless of X running. > > any other suggestions or ideas? i'm finally switching > from windows to unix "full-time", so i am stuck > choosing between freebsd and linux (gentoo). i really > like freebsd's integration, configuration, > documentation and ports system, but auto-standby is > important to me. thie absence of this feature seems > to me to be a significant, though not vital, > omission--particularly useful in computer labs. is > anyone aware of a more general daemon or facility that > can execute a command after a certain period of system > idleness... perhaps some modified cron? I'm not sure what is involved in putting the *system* into standby, as compared to just the monitor - Linux distros usually provide a utility called 'hdparm' to set spin-down and sleep times for IDE drives, don't know if theres a SCSI equivalent. I haven't found a similar utility in FreeBSD - possibly one of the tunables mentioned in 'man ata' or 'man tuning' would do it, I haven't looked very hard. -- David Fleck dcf@aracnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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