[ltp] Suspend and resume at a particular time?

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:22:51 -0400


Eric Covener wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>> Suspend (to RAM) with Fn-F4 works like a charm on my T42p running a
>> modern Ubuntu.
>>
>> It occurred to me a couple of mornings ago as I waited for my machine
>> to grovel through a few hundred email messages, rebuild the locate
>> database, etc. that if I could just tell the darned thing to wake-up
>> on its own at say 5:00a, all these things would be finished before I
>> even got out of bed (well, on most days, anyway).
> 
> You should be able to point a cron entry at the same script ACPI is
> using for the fn-f4 event.  (man crontab, man 5 crontab)

Is cron etc., running during suspend?