July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Commands
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-s, --suspend
Suspend system to disk. Suspending the system to disk is
equivalent to turning it off, but boot time will be faster and the
system will resume exactly where it was before suspend.
-S, --standby
Set system to standby. This will normally turn off the monitor
and spin down the disk drives, reducing energy consumption
by approximately 50 percent. Recovery from this mode is
more rapid than from a full suspend to disk, but the system is
still running.
-i, --ignore
When the system is using AC power, ignore suspend or
standby requests generated by the system.
-n, --noignore
Do not ignore any suspend or standby events. This overrides a
previously issued -i flag.
apmd
apmd [options]
System administration command. apmd handles events reported by
the Advanced Power Management BIOS driver. The driver reports
on battery level and requests to enter sleep or suspend mode. apmd
will log any reports it gets via syslogd and take steps to make sure
that basic sleep and suspend requests are handled gracefully. You
can fine-tune the behavior of apmd by editing the apmd_proxy
script, which apmd runs when it receives an event. Note that the
APM hardware standard is gradually being replaced by the ACPI
(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) standard, and
apmd by acpid. On SUSE ...
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