Automatically power on at a specific time

Rawk · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 44

For power saving I want to automatically shut down my PM 8200 at night and start it again in the morning.
The shut down would be no problem with a cron job, but is it also possible to power it on again?

adaptr · Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject:

Only if you can hack your way into the BIOS to set an auto-boot time there.
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

There is no BIOS on Macs.

You might be able to use Wake-On-Lan and schedule it from another machine. As a terrible hack, that machine has the ability to power on after power failure, so you could get one of those timers that turn on and off the power. :)
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Rawk · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 44

In powerpc-utils-1.1.3-r18 should be a little program called bootshed that would exactly do what I need, but the dosbin line in the ebuild misses bootshed (as well as autoboot). Bug or intended?