Unscheduled unattended boot

[Phil Dobbin]

On 11/24/2012 09:11 PM, Colin Law wrote:

> 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 :)

Easier said than done with a nine year old boy, Colin :-)

I've even resorted to disconnecting the power cable in the past but he
just finds one elsewhere. He's determined to crack his password. Good
luck with that one...

Cheers,

  Phil...

-- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow
Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal


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