On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:35:49 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... [suspend to ram] Here's some stuff that may be useful to folks: I like to suspend the machine with a command, and not lid close. I prefer lid close to put the machine in low power state, but keep it running. for my lid close, I do: if (lid open...) killall -CONT mozilla-bin else (lid closed...) killall -STOP mozilla-bin and for suspend, I do far more: #!/bin/sh # usage: $0 [-f] [-n] # -f = force. no network checks # -n = not really. do everything but actual suspend # presumption: eth0 is always the pcmcia. # my config: builtin ethernet isn't insmod'ed by default, so the system # just doesn't know it's there. if ifconfig eth0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then # check if there is any pending network activity if [ " $1" = ' -f' ] ; then # -f is specified, skip the network checks echo 'Skipping network checks' shift 1 else # no -f found; normal code path # check mailq MAILQ=`mailq -Ac` # rh6.2: while [ "$MAILQ" != 'Mail queue is empty' ] ; do # rh7.0: while [ "$MAILQ" != '/var/spool/mqueue is empty' ] ; do # rh8.0: while [ "$MAILQ" != '/var/spool/mqueue is empty # Total requests: 0' ] ; do # rh8.0 client mqueue: (yes, multiline. WHITESPACE IMPORTANT) while [ "$MAILQ" != '/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty Total requests: 0' ] ; do echo 'mail pending. press enter to retry, or -f to override' echo "$MAILQ" read LINE if [ "$LINE" = '-f' ] ; then break ; fi MAILQ=`mailq -Ac` done service sendmail stop # check for active tcp connections # ignore :25 connections, as the mailq test has that covered # ignore web, other 'pending close' states # ignore X11 connections. only thing I ever use is x2x NETSTAT="`netstat -n --inet 2>&1 | egrep -v '(:25 |TIME_WAIT|FIN_WAIT|CLOS|LAST_ACK|127.0.0.1:|:80 |:443 |:6000 )' `" while [ `echo "$NETSTAT" | wc -l` != 2 ] ; do echo 'network connections still active. press enter to retry, or -f to override' # by default, only print out the filtered netstat echo "$NETSTAT" read LINE if [ "$LINE" = '-f' ] ; then break ; fi NETSTAT="`netstat -n --inet 2>&1 | egrep -v '(:25 |TIME_WAIT|FIN_WAIT|CLOS|LAST_ACK|127.0.0.1:|:80 |:443 |:6000 )' `" done fi # endif cmd line -f # shut down networking killall dhcpcd ifconfig eth0 down # sometimes the wired ethernet is there, but since it's not my # normal connection, it must've been temporary ifconfig eth1 >/dev/null 2>&1 && ifconfig eth1 down rmmod 3c59x else echo 'No network; skipping checks' fi # since I can't suspend with 2.4 acpi, additionally disable certain # daemons because they eat cpu, and thus power # lpd reads from disk every minute # fetchmail is how I get my mail. obviously useless if the network is down. # PAUSE it only killall -STOP fetchmail # if I can suspend if false ; then # eject card if possible #cardctl eject # report on battery condition apm # suspend if [ " $1" != ' -n' ] ; then sleep 2 # -n not found; normal code path apm --suspend else # -n is specified, skip the actual suspend process echo 'Not really suspending...' fi # TODO: wait for eth0 to be up! else all below will fail fi # if I can acpi low-power if true ; then # enter low power state echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep echo "Press enter to revive" read echo "Getting new dhcp lease" # Work network is doubled, because sometimes the dhcp server # isn't responsive. # NOTE: you can press ctrl-c to skip over various networks # without interrupting this script for TRY in any Work Work any Work Work any Work Work do echo "Looking for $TRY network" /usr/local/etc/iwkey $TRY if dhcpcd -t 10 eth0 ; then break ; fi done fi # communicate to the user that eth0 is up now ifconfig eth0 # resume fetchmail killall -CONT fetchmail # kjw hack - I can't send mail directly from my laptop any more because # of 1- dynamic addresses being blocked and 2- firewall at work, so # sm-client starts the sendmail client, and an ssh-tunnel to my colo box, # listening on 127.0.0.1:25. This way I can locally queue messages for # later delivery, yet still deliver through the colo, which is a trusted # mail server. #service sendmail start service sm-client start service lpd start # immediately switch back into X chvt 7 exit 0