Perhaps I'm too late on this, but powernap is exactly the application that I'm looking for. I am running a headless Ubuntu home server as a NAS and web server. The server is typically only being accessed 1-2 hours a day so I would prefer that it go into a lower power state when not being used. My current solution is a PowerShell script on my Windows computer that lets me (and my non-techy wife) completely shut down the server remotely. I have wake on LAN set up to bring it back up remotely. I tried having the server automatically suspend, but it seems that only keyboard/mouse input will reset the suspend timer, so it will always suspend after the set time regardless of whether it is being used or not. Powernap was exactly the application I needed to check if there is any traffic on Apache, Samba, or MySQL before suspending (and reset the countdown if there is).
I tried looking at the proposed alternative solution using OpenStack Watcher. I have some basic Linux skills, but am still mostly a beginner. I spent about 10 hours trying to set watcher up and have yet to get it working in even the most basic sense. The tutorial presumes I already have full knowledge of OpenStack and MySQL (I have some MySQL experience and no OpenStack experience), so most answers require significant sub-research (and often sub-sub-research, etc). A good portion of that time was also spent trying to install powernap manually using the downloaded package. Nearly every tutorial I saw online for installing packages involves the "make" command, but that doesn't seem to be an option for powernap (no "makefile" apparently). For what it's worth, it seems from my internet searching that my use case (small headless server that doesn't need to be up all the time) is the use case for the large majority of powernap users. I understand that this isn't being maintained anymore, and if the decision is that it should stay removed for that reason despite it's current use cases an relevancy, I understand that. I just wanted to make sure it's understood that it absolutely still has a valuable use case today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853001 Title: RM powernap binary & source packages from Focal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/powernap/+bug/1853001/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
