[SOLVED] HowTo sleep / standby / hibernate / suspend from command line

[SecretCode]

Since it's more than 40 minutes since you posted, no

But seriously - a look at man at suggests the command atrm 1 if 1 is the job number (you can check with atq).

You'll need sudo if your user does not have rights to suspend (see a few posts back).

[haudace]

Thanks, I was looking for something like this. Hopefully, it still works with natty 11.04!

Edit: NVM, reading the log files I found my hard drive disk does not communicate well with natty. It does not power down when triggered in linux . Since I am loading linux from a USB, I just removed the internal HD and everything works fine now.

[user2037]

Sadly none of these solutions work with 11.10. PMI produces "Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files"

[landtuna]

As someone mentioned above, this seems to work in Oneiric:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

[aciddesir]

Sadly none of these solutions work with 11.10. PMI produces "Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files"

Seconded. Also pm-utils commands are overriden if you use Jupiter at the same time.

[petko10]

Guys you need to install the package "hal" . In short :
1 Get powermanager-interface
2 Get hal
3 Type "pmi action suspend"

That worked for me on 11.10 .

[Artif]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager

 dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

This was successfull on LUbuntu 12.04 Precise with OpenBox session. Without sudo and root privileges. LUbuntu is derivative with LXDE instead of heavy Unity, because this is the only declared distinction( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu ), the trick must be workable on Ubuntu and other official derivatives.

Usually in LUbuntu you also may use lxsession-logout, but it is a GUI solution (can not be used in autonomous script or else), and you can not use lxsession-logout on LUbuntu's Openbox session without some working on additional lxsession launch. But "dbus-send..." will do the job out of the box.

As posted at
http://askubuntu.com/questions/93542...pend-hibernate
you may find other targets:

• org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
• org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart
• org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
• org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate

You may use:
for reboot

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart

for shutdown

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop

for hibernate

dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate

Suspend is described above:

dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

This also do not need system modifications or root access.

P.S. 2All: Hey! Ordinary user do not have sudo access or root privileges!!! Editing of /etc/sudoers may lead to possible breaks in security system (remember possible vulnerability of any software). Using of "sudo suspend-command" is an ugly workaround instead of real solution.

[Rebelli0us]

How do you send a SUSPEND command to another Linux machine on your network?

Something equivalent to Microsoft/Sysinternals PsTools psshutdown.exe utility.

[HiImTye]

would be easy if you just ssh'd into it

[Rebelli0us]

would be easy if you just ssh'd into it

I tried

ssh user-name@192.168.1.102 sudo pm-suspend

but it didn't work. Any ideas how to suspend machines on the network?