startup & standby automatically at certain hours

[walter_073]

Dears,

I want my desktop to go into standby at 10PMh and come back alive at 6PM.
Some questions :
1. Is this possible?
2. If yes, How?

When starting up is it possible to open a certain file with openoffice?

Thansk for support

[Andreas1]

i heard of a scheduler called "cron", so far haven't used it though


man cron
man anacron

EDIT: did a little search, there seems to be a graphical frontend for cron called "gnome-schedule", it is in the repositories.

[kpkeerthi]

Most BIOS will have an option to AutoStart the PC at a specificied time.

You can add shutdown/suspend command to crontab (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto)

[gcvisel]

Yeah but...

With auto-login now requiring passwords since Jaunty, it would just start and sit waiting for the pw. Any way around that?