On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:36 pm, Cameron MacDonald mercilessly beat the
keyboard and wrote:
| Porco Rosso wrote:
| > Maybe "hibernate".
| > When I push power button, the system is shut down (with ACPI
| > available) and is powered off.
| > But I would like to power off temporally without shut down linux
| > system ,and when I push any key, it is hoped that the computer is
| > powered on and that the linux system can be used without restaring
| > computer. How does it work? Or cannot it do?
| >
| > ET wrote:
| >>On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:22 pm, Porco Rosso wrote:
| >>>Is stand-by-mode like that of Windows XP available on the Mandriva
| >>> Linux LE 2005?
| >>>If available, how does it work
| >>>?
| >>
| >>when you say "standby"
| >>do you mean "hibernate"
|
| I, for one, leave my machine running all the time. When I'm done
| with a session, I go to Menu, Logout, End Current Session, then just
| turn off the monitor. I have heard that Linux boxes have cron jobs
| that tend to run at ~4AM, so shutting it down means that some jobs,
| updates don't get run, and don't necessarily run on booting up. I
| have a fairly quiet machine and it's not near my bed, so it doesn't
| bother me. To restart my session, I turn on the monitor, wiggle the
| mouse or hit a key, and log in. No long boot times.
| Could this work for you?
|
| Cam
To catch those cron jobs up, you can install anacron. It is designed just
for that :).
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