Re: Automagic boots
This may sound silly... but what when the computer is shutdown at night, what
time is being stored in the BIOS? It could be timezone thing... I don't know,
just an idea....
On 09-Mar-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> "S. Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com> writes:
>
>> >>>>> "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp> writes:
>> OM> Hi all, I've set up a part-time server for our group. Every
>> OM> morning at 7:30 it automagically boots up and at 8:30 in the
>> OM> evening it shuts itself down. Works like a charm, really, and
>> OM> is very `green'. Not?
>>
>> How have you setup this machine to automatically boot up at 7:30am after
>> it shut itself down at 8:30pm the night before ?
>
> Via the machine's BIOS. It has several settings to automagically boot
> under certain conditions. Apperently I haven't got a clue as to which
> conditions are causing my problem. Come to think of it, it is likely
> that neither Debian nor Linux have anything to do with it. But since
> the boot always take place within a few minutes after the shutdown (it
> looks an awful lot like a regular reboot but it's not in the logs like
> that---I mean `last reboot' shows nothing for the times concerned) it
> just might.
>
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> Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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Regards,
Wim Kerkhoff
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