powernap

Langue: en

Version: 364302 (ubuntu - 25/10/10)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

NAME

powernap - have the system "take a power nap"; this can be a user defined program or script at /etc/powernap/action, or the first supported action among [suspend, hibernate, poweroff]

DESCRIPTION

powernap will run when powernapd(8) has determined that an action needs to be taken according to its configured parameters.

If the file /etc/powernap/action is executable, then the powernap binary will run it when called.

Otherwise, powernap will run one of:
  * pm-suspend
  * pm-hibernate
  * poweroff depending on your hardware's capabilities, as determined by pm-is-supported(1).

You may do one of:
  1) Write your own custom at /etc/powernap/action and make it executable
  2) Replace /etc/powernap/action with an executable script or binary
  3) Symlink /etc/powernap/action to some other executable script or binary

http://launchpad.net/powernap

FILES

/etc/powernap/action, /proc/acpi/sleep

SEE ALSO

powernapd(8), pm-is-supported(1), ethtool(8)

AUTHOR

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.