Re: [HELP] Machine "sleeps" so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

[stephen parkinson <stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
>  
please elaborate on the description of the bios setting?
then at least i will know which way to set to allay a future problem:-)

stephen