On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:30:42PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. > >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and > >the clock always got skewed. > > Do you want that when you're in X or on the console? Three things to > consider: > > 1. Configure and activate APM in your BIOS, compile kernel with APM > support (you probably did that already). > > 2. Install the apmd package (no need to actually run the apm*d*, all > you need is apm) and run 'apm -s' or 'apm -S' as needed. Is that what > you used a cron job for? Would be unusual. > > 3. Configure X properly (set timeouts and define "power_saver") and > run 'xset dpms' from .xinit. >
and 4. Install anacron, which will keep track of missed cronjobs due to the system being off. -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
