Re: Scheduled Startup & Shutdown under Linux
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:41:40PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:17PM -0500, Matt Christian wrote:
> > > Does anybody know if there is a way to get my PowerMac to automatically
> > > boot at a specified time after Linux shuts down?
> >
> > Although I haven't used it yet, I found a program called "pmacpow" that
> > can be used to set the next power up time on Power Macs. Found at:
> > <ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/users/toe/pmacpow-tool/>
> >
> > Referenced on Linuxppc's Power Macintosh Development page at:
> > <http://linuxppc.org/dev/pmac/>
>
> there are a couple things here that look useful but they are
> unfortunatly hideously undocumented. one i am interested in is making
> the machine powerup automatically when the power is plugged in (so it
> will reboot automatically if shutdown by the UPS)
>
> it would be nice if these utilities were part of the powerpc-utils
> package but i think they will need some documentation (which needs
> someone who can read source code in this case)
Funny, I was thinking the same thing :) They're on my TODO list.
Dan
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| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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