Re: Automagic boots
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:35:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've set up a part-time server for our group. Every morning at 7:30
> it automagically boots up and at 8:30 in the evening it shuts itself
> down. Works like a charm, really, and is very `green'. Not?
"Green" as in environmentally friendly? Maybe, maybe not. The evidence
I've seen is largely inconclusive. Shut down your CRT (monitor) if
you're away from the machine for 20-60 minutes. However, the nominal
power draw of CPU, memory, fan(s), and disk(s) is relatively low, and
the surge from repeated power cycling may cause more rapid part failures
-- with the ensuing manufacturing and distribution cost, energy. On the
third hand, parts obsolescense being what it is, you're most likely
going to junk the unit before it wears out anyway.
Suggestion being that you set an appropriate dpms timeout for your
monitor and ignore the rest of the box's modest power draw, avoiding
your problem in the process.
> However, lately I've noticed that the machine occasionally boots right
> after it has shut itself down, around 8:3[123] PM that is. I've spent
> some time checking logs and there is nothing that caught my attention,
> just some Samba connections right before and some time after the shut-
> down/boot cycle. BTW, the machine is behind a firewall.
>
> If anyone has a clue what might cause the machine to mysteriously boot
> in the evening, I'd sure like to know! Right now, the only thing that
> I can think of is some overlooked BIOS settings (and I'm experimenting
> with that) that cause the machine to boot when there is traffic on the
> network.
>
> FYI, the machine is a Debian dedicated IBM PC 300PL.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
>
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