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Fwd: Putting display to sleep on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Jul 24 13:13:11 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:13:01 -0400
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Jon Hunt has again raised the issue of putting Athena displays to sleep.
Previously Cluster Services took the position that it would be a
problem losing the ability to glance into the clusters and see what
systems were up and manifesting an Athena logo. Owls expressed the
concern that people were so used to "Always On" Athena that they'd
think the system was dead and inappropriately power cycle it.
Q1: Leaving aside these concerns as policy issues, what is the
technical solution to switching systems over to putting the display
to sleep after 15 minutes?
Q2: If the policy keeps cluster systems from sleeping, what is the
technical solution to setting just Private system to do this?
Q3: Is there a particular approach that we should advocate?
-Bill
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Jonathan McIndoe Hunt" <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
> Date: July 23, 2008 2:41:46 PM EDT
> To: "'William Cattey'" <wdc@mit.edu>
> Subject: Putting display to sleep on Athena
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> What would be involved in configuring a single Athena machine, e.g.
> the
> Athena linux desktop in my office, to put the display to sleep
> after say 15
> minutes of inactivity?
>
> Depending on what the answer is to my first question, the second
> question
> may or may not make sense. What would be involved in changing the
> default
> configuration for private Athena workstations to put the display to
> sleep or
> adding it as a standard configuration option?
>
> I'd like to see this an option for clusters too, but understand
> that is a
> more involved decision with numerous pros and cons.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
> ___________________________________________________
> Jonathan McIndoe Hunt MIT EECS '97 617.253.0172
> Senior Manager Software Services
> Client Support Services
> Information Services & Technology, MIT
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>
>
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