anacron

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Nov 14 13:23:50 CST 2004


On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:21:29AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 09:13 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > > Better, I think, but more work, if anacron itself were made battery-aware.
> > > 
> > It is -- but the Debian package only includes the APM side of things, we
> > need to add the ACPI equivalents.
> 
> And PMU, please, don't forget PPC users O:-)
> 
> I think we need a common power management system...

The right way to do this is to use on_ac_power(1) from powermgmt-base, which
already handles APM, ACPI and PMU.

-- 
 - mdz



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