Auto off?

[abunt]

I have been thinking I should turn off my PC at night for all the good reasons - saving energy, the planet etc and was wondering if I can set it up to do it automatically. I suppose turning on again automatically is out of the question?

[Rog131]

Re: Auto off?

Hmm shutdown is easy:

Press: Alt + F2 > kdesu kcron > Choose root > Choose tasks > Right click tasks > Choose New (or press Ctrl + N) > Edit Task - KCron pops up

- click right time and day (daily)
- program: /sbin/shutdown -h now

From man shutdown:

shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked...

Power on - D'oh

[yesac142]

Re: Auto off?

How about a hibernate function? Not a full shutdown but should be faster restart.

Just google linux hibernate. Here's one:
http://www.suspend2.net/

[sky]

Re: Auto off?

If you have a default install, this script should hibernate and switch off power, I'm not sure if it's using suspend2 or another one...
It's located here : /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh

Cheers

[Rog131]

Re: Auto off?

Just find this:

TurnOffTimer
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=45902

Description:
A Kommander script that will help you shut down / restart etc. the computer at a specified time later.

Note I haven't tried this and it's 0.1 version.

[abunt]

Re: Auto off?

With some help from Nigel Cunningham I got Suspend2 installed and working and it seems pretty good.

So all I need to do is remove the 'shutdown' task I added to Kcron and add 'sudo hibernate' instead, but when I open Kcron now it is empty - no tasks, no variables. Do I have to be root when I run it; how do I do that?

Thanks, Abunt

[Rog131]

Re: Auto off?

Alt+F2 (or konsole) and then kdesu kcron.

[abunt]

Re: Auto off?

Thanks, its done.