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can i wake from suspend at curtain times of the day, run a scheduled task (only if i was suspended), and then suspend again?

Asked by ralph

I just want to get the computer to wakeup at say 17:00 and upload some figure's to a web site, then go back to suspend again?

I know i can wake the computer at x, run a job, and then force a suspend until x time again, The trick is, obviously i dont want it to suspend the computer if im using it? i just want it to re-suspend. It would be good if it ran the job though....

Believe it or not, you can actually do this in Win7...... I actually does it automatically....

Also, not wanting to overly complain, the job scheduler is not exactly the most user friendly of things to use.... am i missing something, or doesn't this need some attention from a developer or two?

Thanks very much, Ralph

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

You can do this, but Ubuntu does not currently have a user-friendly interface for configuring it. See https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+question/140706. Please feel free to post again (here, not there) if you have trouble with those instructions or the instructions are not adequate for what you need to do.

As for the notion that the job scheduler should have a nicer, more powerful graphical interface: You may want to search http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com for this. If it has been posted about already, you can contribute. If not, you can post about it.

If you have highly specific feature requests, you can file bugs for them here on Launchpad (just make sure to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs carefully first).

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#2

Use hibernate instead.
Hibernate Moves the contents of memory into swap, tells the bootloader to boot directly into the appropriate kernel, and shuts the machine down, in this state, the system does not require power.

Terminal: sudo pm-hibernate

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