[ltp] cron vs. suspend (was: suspend resume works fine for sh ort suspends - fails for longer suspends)

Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:46:28 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Keitel [mailto:tino.keitel@gmx.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:07 AM
> 
> > If cron is not waking up a "apm --suspend" to run its daily task
> > (note: cron.hourly is not run), the only other reason I can 
> see would
> > be that I am not fully suspended.
> 
> Yet, it seems so. Is the moon light (located to the right of the
> battery and power light) on after your TP goes to suspend?

Yes, I get the little moon, and the system beep telling me it's now suspended.

Hmm, maybe I should stay awake at 1am and listen for wakeup noises :)

I just remembered, the suspend I do is not "amp --suspend", but I press Fn+F4. Is that any different from the apm command?

T.