powernap(8)

NAME

powernap - have the system "take a power nap"; this can be a user defined program or script at /etc/powernap/action, or the first supported action among [suspend, hibernate, poweroff]

DESCRIPTION

powernap will run when powernapd(8) has determined that an action needs to be taken according to its configured parameters.

If the file /etc/powernap/action is executable, then the powernap binary will run it when called.

Otherwise, powernap will run one of:
* pm-suspend
* pm-hibernate
* poweroff depending on your hardware's capabilities, as determined
by pm-is-supported(1).
You may do one of:
1) Write your own custom at /etc/powernap/action and make it exe
cutable
2) Replace /etc/powernap/action with an executable script or binary 3) Symlink /etc/powernap/action to some other executable script or
binary
http://launchpad.net/powernap

FILES

/etc/powernap/action, /proc/acpi/sleep

SEE ALSO

powernapd(8), pm-is-supported(1), ethtool(8)

AUTHOR

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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