On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 14:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> my new workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me
> feel good about leaving on all the time.
It might be worth measuring what it actually uses.
A system may have a 500 watt power supply, but that's the amount its
able to s
On 3/24/21 11:17 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
This is pretty cool -- I'm thinking of something similar, as my new
workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me feel good about
leaving on all the time. Do you have a blog post or repo with your complete
solution?
I keep this in a priva
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:40:04PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> All sorted out and working as expected now.
This is pretty cool -- I'm thinking of something similar, as my new
workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me feel good about
leaving on all the time. Do you have a blog p
On 3/21/21 11:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
So, does your backup process work when called from crontab entry?
Yes, it does, and that's part of what confused me. However -- and this
is rather embarrassing -- the real problem was a missing environment
variable in the script when the process was ru
On 22/03/2021 14:08, Ed Greshko wrote:
But, when testing things I like to use examples which use simple system
commands. To verify that things
work as I think they should in various ways before trying my commands/scripts.
Along those lines
[egreshko@f33k ~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/mycro
On 22/03/2021 11:07, Gordon Messmer wrote:
I'd like to inhibit suspend while backups run on my laptop. I'm scheduling those backups
with a systemd timer[1] and service[2]. I've read that the default polkit policy only
permits inhibiting suspend from within a login session, so I've also tried t
I'd like to inhibit suspend while backups run on my laptop. I'm
scheduling those backups with a systemd timer[1] and service[2]. I've
read that the default polkit policy only permits inhibiting suspend from
within a login session, so I've also tried to add rules to allow the
root user to inhib
