[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<1c4e76a7-51be-4ecb-92dc-373c7e5b82df at e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Good luck. When I last looked into this behaviour, there was no
> architected way of setting up power-management for a PC where there
> was no logged-on user. And no simple non-architected way either,
> though I suspect that in an environment where there is only one real
> user on any given pc, that may not matter. Maybe it just 'remembers'
> the settings from the last user who had the privilege to change them?
> That was a number of years ago (three years? when my current desktop
> PC arrived at work), things may have improved, given that the cost of
> power has increased somewhat.

I've had an odd experience with my Windows 7 box recently.  If I left it 
on overnight it would sleep and fail to do backups (even though the 
backup job had "wake to execute" set).  I switched sleep mode off (it 
does appear to be a user based setting), and now when I arrive the next 
day I cannot bring up a login prompt.

Workaround #1: hit the sleep button on the keyboard in the morning, It 
goes to sleep and then I can wake it up using the power button.

Workaround #2: leave a Linux server VM running.

-- 
Paul Sture