Shutting down your computer, and bringing it back up

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I know a lot of people just leave their desktops on all night (including me) and resume zombi-ness in the morning. However, other than possible memory leaks, what are the pitfalls of this? I've seen from personal experience that Linux systems do better than Windows systems, in the sense that a PC will slow down to a halt after large periods of uptime (might be different with the newer Windows'). I'm running OpenSuse and some other flavours of Linux, does this still apply to me?

Also, let's say I want to shut my desktop before I go to bed. Is there ANY way for me to bring it back up at a certain time. This may seem like a completely idiotic question but I wonder...

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '11 at 23:55

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Some BIOSes support bringing up a machine at a given time. One caveat is that your system time may be stored in UTC, which means that you'll need to offset the desired boot time appropriately.

answered Apr 17 '11 at 23:55

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 18 '11 at 15:27

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Adding an answer for your question - not related but I just wanted to add. If you want to shutdown your machine after a certain amount of time, you can use the command:

shutdown -h 120

Where 120 is the minutes after which the system will shutdown.

edited Apr 18 '11 at 15:27

Gareth

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 00:49

MoG

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Shutting down your computer, and bringing it back up

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