how to trun on the system automatically by crontab?

rvisu87@gmail.com · 06-20-2012, 12:16 AM

Hi,
I have actually using ubuntu 10.04.
I want that the system should Turn ON automatically at 9:00 am and turn off the system at 8.00 pm.

Is there any way crontab command ? or other procedure so that i may not manually on the system

szboardstretcher · 06-20-2012, 12:29 AM

Sorry. The system has to be on for crontab to work.

But, if you want your computer to turn on at a certain time,.. you *might* have an option in your Bios, under power management. Something about wake alarm or something similar.

Other than that you are going to be looking at Wake on lan solutions, which might not help, or mechanical solutions such as an external power timer.

jschiwal · 06-20-2012, 12:29 AM

If the computer is off, cron isn't running and can't turn on the computer. Cron could shut it down at a certain time each day.

You could use a timer to supply power between 9 AM and 9 PM and have the computer turn itself off at 8 PM.

Babertje · 06-20-2012, 02:39 AM

The other procedure by the timer option from the BIOS this option works with most ATX boards or setup the computer to wake on lan and use an external system to send the magic WOL command.
to shutdown the computer:

Code:

00 20 * * * /sbin/poweroff