Journal yagu's Journal: scheduled "live" times for linux box 2
Will run this up the flagpole, if I get a couple of votes, I may proceed.
I have long wanted the ability to have my linux box up during hours I need it and off when not needed. The off part is easy of course with cron.
The on part is much more problematic. In the old days you could just put the Big Orange Switch (BOS, remember those?) in the power-on position, and put a cheapy Radio Shack timer on the outlet and be sure your cron was shutting down appropriately in time for the power-off periods. But computers today are all software switches and I can't use that anymore.
I have come up with a way to use XP's ability to hibernate and "wake" the computer to perform scheduled tasks as leverage to bounce my ACPI computer into linux at prescribed times of day for prescribed lengths. I thought maybe I'd write it up in my journal, submit as a potential story for slashdot.
(By the way, my use for this is to have the linux server up and running the music server, the Tivo Software during the day during my waking hours without me having to remember to turn it on (cron is always how I shut down). Also, when I'm out of town, I like to know time slots when I can get to my server from the internet -- this not only allows me that access with minimal uptime for the box, it probably is also a bit more secure not being on all the time)
Thoughts? (Also, I have not found this doable even on ACPI linux boxes because I haven't found them able to wake the machine to perform a scheduled cron job.)
Can you configure your bios to boot on power-on (Score:2)
Easy peasy
Re:Can you configure your bios to boot on power-on (Score:2)
I wish I could... it's a fscking brain dead BIOS. I wonder how many others have the same situation? Unfortunately, knowing enough about the BIOS on a machine, unless you're buying and building, is virtually impossible.