Re: [HELP] Machine "sleeps" so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.
Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote on 07/03/2004 (13:38) :
>
> To my knowledge, you have to have the machine awake since crontab is
> running against an internal clock. Once ACPI/APM put it to sleep,
> nothing in the kernel code will wake it up. Only BIOS or LAN settings
> will do that.
>
> You'll have to leave it on, or look into anacron to capture cron jobs
> after it wakes up.
Yes, I was leaving it on that was the problem. However, yesterday I
discovered a BIOS setting which I had misunderstood and it seems that
this was my problem. After turning it off then the machine started
working correctly :-)
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