is powernap still around?

[dlbrewe]

Hello
I am back w/ essentially the same situation I've encountered before:
I have a couple of desktops that i would like to automatically suspend when nobody is logged in. Also a couple of headless servers that i'd like to suspend on a schedule. I have used powernap for a long time, as recently as w/ 18.04. However I recently upgraded to 20.04 and powernap appears to be obsoleted and removed from the standard repositories. I'd appreciate any suggestions about accomplishing what i need to do.

Edit:
It dawned on me that i think I can adequately control the servers using cron and rtcwake. With the desktops, I guess I need a simple way to detect if any users are logged in, so that is a corollary question.

[MAFoElffen]

I see 'powernap' list in focal (20.04) but diving deeper, I don't see it further than 18.04(???)

On checking for logged in users...

#!/bin bash

logged_in=$(w | grep -v 'average\|LOGIN@' | awk '{print $1}') ## Check for logged in users, return UserName

if [ -z $logged_in ]
then
  echo "No one is logged in"
  #systemctl suspend   ##hibernate 
  rtcwake -m disk -s 900   ## Hibernate to disk and wake up in 15 minutes...
else
  echo "Users are logged in"
fi

The problem would be to power back on via command line... Using rtcwake, you could wake up in 15 minutes, then check for activity again (cron running this scipt)

[zeke2135]

Thanks for the ideas! I'm not sure I follow the details but I came up with a simple solution that seems to work well enough for me.

logins=$(users)

if [ "$logins" = "" ]; then
systemctl suspend
fi

I run this script at intervals from /etc/crontab. So far it seems to work well enough.

Thanks again. (BTW somehow I have two ubuntu forums accounts and logged in to the other one to post this question.