Unscheduled unattended boot

[Colin Law]

On 24 November 2012 12:28, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I upgraded my youngest son's HP desktop machine to Quantal & now, for
> some unknown reason, it boots up at 06:30 every morning (I found out the
> time of the boot after hearing its start-up password prompt when walking
> past his bedroom door).
>
> It happens every morning & I had been blaming him for it (I've got the
> whole home LAN monitored by Nagios & all machines except mine are
> powered off by via cron at 22:00 each night so I see its upstate from
> Nagios every morning) but one this particular morning when I heard it
> boot, he was fast asleep.

Of course you could just disconnect the power and save the cost of
leaving it on standby overnight :)

Colin