Schedule ALL the things for the night
Schedule ALL the things for the night
cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/3428368
Though you still have to suspend by yourself when you're done.
was i supposed to find that out by myself
Just do what i did, wait for someone to post about it on lemmy then learn about it from that
That's actually how i learned most of the things i knowThough you still have to suspend by yourself when you're done.
Does
ExecPost=systemctl suspendwork ?
Probably.
But what if the timer triggered during normal operation? Then your computer would suddenly suspend on its own and you wouldn't know why.
I've already made a feature request to only run when the system is suspended.
Until then I'll look at when the system woke up and if that was less than a minute ago turn off the display and suspend after everything is done.
Doing God's work ..
Can't you just suspend with another timer that calls
Unit=suspend.target?Yes, do that a minute after everything else started but run the services themselves with
systemd-inhibit(another nice thing I didn't know exists) so that it only goes back to sleep when the last service is done.
Linux newb here. What does this mean? My knowledge of systemd is that it is responsible for things like mounting disks and running networking. So does this mean I can ask systemd to grab a new IP address every x hours, even if the machine is asleep?
Systemd is a collection of low-level system utilities. Its primary responsibility is managing services and serving as the init process (PID 1, the first userspace process started by the kernel), but it also has other components, like
systemd-boot(a boot loader and GRUB alternative),journald(system logging),networkd(network interface management),resolved(DNS resolver), orudevd(manages device files in/dev).People tend to vilify systemd because it is maintained by Red Hat, a company with many controversies, and a pariah among the more extreme FOSS enthusiasts; and because it's seen as bad practice to have a single entity be responsible for so many low-level system components.
Note: the
-dsuffix is not exclusive to systemd things. It simply marks the program as a daemon, a long-running background process that provides some kind of service. For example,sshd(SSH server) orhttpd(Apache server on some distros) are not parts of systemd.To answer your question: not really. As far as I know, the network interface won't have an IP address unless the computer is turned on. If you use a timer (or any other method for that matter) to power on the computer, it will request an address from DHCP as soon as the interface is brought up (unless it has a static address).
A more practical application would be scheduling long, unattended tasks, like updates or making backups.
Is sshd really not part of systemd? I seem to remember needing to run systemctl restart sshd after making changes to the sshd config file but it's been a while since I've done that.
I also use systemd to automatically start plex, sonarr, radarr, transmission, and maybe a few other things as well and if they need to be restarted I'd use a similar command on Ubuntu. Or I'd run systemctl status plexmediaserver to see if it was running correctly.
I'm not an expert though so maybe I'm doing it wrong or using the wrong terminology.
Systemd at its core starts stuff when your Linux system boots and during normal operation. It can also start stuff at specific times. That was traditionally done by cron.
But of course when you set up to run something at midnight it cannot run if the system is in standby. But with the WakeSystem=true option you can tell it to basically set an alarm for the computer to turn itself back on and do whatever you want it to do.
It does not turn your computer back to sleep, though. That's something you have to script yourself.
I hope they add the ability to turn the computer on even if it is completely shut off. That would make keeping my family's computers updated much easier.
It basically means that systemd allows you to make a call to SYSTEM() using a specific command to wake the PC from hibernation, that way you can install updates in your script and then issue your sleep or shutdown command.
Unless I'm missing something