Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor
On 31 Aug 2002 04:13:18 +0800
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10
> minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be.
> With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes,
> but with the monitor off, the UPS can last 20 minutes. (No, I have
> the most basic UPS with no com port hook up.)
>
> I could hit the plastic button on my monitor to turn it off, but if
> power is restored, then it is a shame to have turned it on and off:
> wear and tear. Best would to be to put it into a standby mode. Then
> if 15 minutes have gone by, go into shutdown via script, without
> reviving the monitor via keyboard actions. However I am having
> trouble writing this.
Same power problemo here. I found my solution a few months ago. I
installed emacs + emacspeak + flite + eflite (needs a few bits of
non-automatic configuring). Emacspeak lets you compute without a
monitor! In my case it lets me do basic computer administration. When a
power outage hits I set my terminal (window or tab) to an emacs(peak)
shell and promptly turn off the monitor. If the power isn't restored
within say 10 mins, I can su to root and issue the shutdown command.
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