Scheduling Ubuntu to "Wake Up"

Daniel George Pevny public.bob at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 17:52:11 UTC 2007


Thank for for the response, Kenneth.  Could you give me an example for
how the command is used? (ie. a playlist file everyday @ 5:45 am)

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:38 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:37:12 -0400, Daniel George Pevny wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if it is possible for Ubunutu to "wake up" from
> > hibernation to perform a scheduled task (specifically, a playlist to use
> > as an alarm clock).  If so, how?  I am currently doing this with
> > Windows.  Thanks in advanced!
> 
> I wish there was an alarm on the clock applet, but there isn't.  I've been
> doing something like this for a while.  I don't think you can tell Ubuntu
> to wake up, but you can usually tell your laptop to computer to wake up in
> the BIOS.  There is a setting for automatically turning your machine on
> every morning at a given time.  
> 
> You can use the "at" command to run the music player at whatever time you
> want.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>
> 
> 





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