From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 9:42:27 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 5AA3F37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from franka.aracnet.com (franka.aracnet.com [216.99.193.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B336D43F3F for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:25 -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 h2NHeJDu024431; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:40:20 -0800 Received: from grond.sourballs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grond.sourballs.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2NHgO1S002224; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:24 -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 h2NHgEpC002221; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcf@aracnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: grond.sourballs.org: dcf owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) From: David Fleck To: mikemcg@ucla.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Portland Linux / Unix Group Subject: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout In-Reply-To: <20030323092549.53492.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030323093702.I358@grond.sourballs.org> References: <20030323092549.53492.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 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