Power Management and Encryption

[Derek Atkins]

Daniel Feenberg <feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org> writes:

> We tried this - the GUI accepted the value "shutdown" in spite of not 
> listing it as an accepted value. But idle time still results in sleep, not 
> shutdown - the value seems to be ignored.
>
> Further search on google suggests the only way to accomplish this is to 
> write a cron job that periodically consults the "w" command for idle 
> times. Apparently the powers that be think that an unexpected shutdown 
> might cause violence to a running process, and have elected not to make it 
> readily available.
>
> In any case, thanks for the suggestions.

You might be safer transitioning into hibernation instead of a real
shutdown.

-derek
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