anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:23 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.
> 
I think Carlos was inferring that we need a common power-management
events system.  Currently APM, PMU and ACPI both have their own events
management, if you want something run when the laptop switches to
battery power -- you need to write that something three times.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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