Re: Re: [TCLUG:1345] Turn off my computer?

[Jeffrey R Haskovec <hask0025@tc.umn.edu>]

You can use hdparm to spin down your harddrives similar to what Win95
does, for instance, my hard drives spin down after 30 Minutes of
inactivity, this seems to work quite well.

Jeff

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 UserCx@aol.com wrote:

> Well anybody know if I can get some kind of power managements software
> for my PC ? 
> 
> It is an IBM Aptiva and when using Windows the machine would power off when
> shutdown, the disk would stop "whirring" if I did not access it for a while,
> the 
> monitor would turn off after some idle time.
> 
> When Linux shuts down it stops at the ".Halt Completed." statement but
> everything
> stays on.
> 
> Anything out there that can control this ?
> 
> thanks,
> sandipan
> 
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