[mythtv-users] Shutdown/Wakeup wiki question

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Fri May 11 07:52:31 UTC 2007


Hello!

I'm finally getting around to setting up shutdown/wakeup stuff on my
system.  This is really quite cool!

I'm mostly confused on the settime script (and what follows it).

Here is what I do manually to "make it work":

echo "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" >/proc/acpi/alarm
shutdown -h now

where YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss is something like 2007-05-11 23:10:00 to
have the system woken up on May 11th 2007 at 11:10pm.

So, what I've put in the first box (wakeup time format) is:
yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss

And then in the second box (set wakeuptime command):
echo "$time" >/proc/acpi/alarm
and the server halt command:
shutdown -h now

And I'm not sure if it will work.  But nonetheless I would like to
understand what the settime script is supposed to be doing.

*update*
My backend just shutdown automatically.  I don't know when it will be
coming back up, but so far the auto shutdown seems like it may have
worked!  :)

Anyway, so if some kind soul could explain why the settime script (and
the related scripts/setup) would want to be used, it would be much
appreciated.  I've spent a considerable amount of time reading up on
hwclock and date, both of which are amazingly in depth and pretty
cool.  So I sort of understand it a bit better, but I still don't see
the rationale.

Thanks!

-Chad


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