Inactivity Shut-down on FC8

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 23:49:18 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:22 -0500, Bradley wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 08:06 -0500, Bradley wrote:
> >   
> >> I would like to hear some ideas on how to set the computer to shut-down 
> >> due to inactivity.  The feature to sleep the computer for inactivity 
> >> doesn't work properly as my computer doesn't support a "sleep" feature.  
> >> It can only hibernate or shut down.  Any thoughts?
> >>     
> >
> > It's F8 (not FC8) and it's no longer supported. You'd be advised to
> > upgrade to F9 or F10 and try again.
> >
> > poc
> >   
> Unfortunately, what you suggest is not possible at this time.  Some of 
> us just can't simply up and upgrade since we have other users to 
> consider and work around.

If you support multiple users you should consider whether Fedora is the
best system for you. It changes every 6 months or so and support falls
off a cliff after two version changes. If you can't deal with that, you
might be better with some other distro, e.g. Centos.

poc




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