[CS-FSLUG] Linux standby and wake on a schedule

[Tim Young]

Some BIOSes have this as an option.  Sort of like the wake-on-lan but it is a
wake-on-timer.

	- Tim

"N. Thompson" wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering how a computer is put into standby mode in Linux, I've
> ever really found the feature anywhere and my new computer seems to
> support it rather well.
> 
> I'm also wondering if it would be possible to schedule wake up times for
> when the computer is in standby and I want it to come back.
> 
> With that would it also be possible to use my computer as an alarm clock
> in the mornings with some sort of program, I would rather not use a cron
> job since I know very little about it.
> 
> I would appreciate any input from the list, now that I know my computer
> can successfully go on standby and wake from it I'm interested in what I
> could do with that.
> 
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