[ydl-gen] how to disable power management - "Always On" mode?

[sa at claborn.net]

A most interesting and informative answer, sir, but . . .

>Hi Jonathan:
>First of all your firewall was up?  Yes?

The box is on an internal LAN. None of us cracked our system :-D
Firewall is down for ease-of-use, since ultimate security on an internal test 
system is not of value at this time :-)

>Did you check your own energy settings?

Well, the point of my post was - I didn't know how to do that.
I am used to using SuSE (mostly) and Debian (a little) and they don't have any 
go-to-sleep power saving enabled by default. And I am used to using YaST in 
SuSE to configure most things, so my question was simply: what is controlling 
the energy settings, and how do I configure it? I just didn't know what to 
look for. There doesn't seem to be any multi-purpose control center for that 
in Yellow Dog. If there is, I'd be please for someone to point out my 
error :-)

I looked in the KMenu, and at everything named system-config-* and did not 
find anything that manages power/energy/sleep settings.

>Perhaps you omitted to examine  
>your auto shutdown sequence?  That is, you may have overlooked that 
>setting the shutdown value to 0 is the only way to guarantee that your 
>system remains up forever ... as long as your alive to pay the bills 
>for the power it uses.

I've never seen or heard of this before. The system was not "off", as soon as 
I moved the mouse it woke up and showed my desktop, and I was able to ping 
and log in through ssh again without doing anything more than moving the 
mouse. This is exactly the same behavior as under OS X - by default it goes 
to sleep and in sleep mode you can't access anything over the network.

>You are probably realizing that tracking all this down -- after the 
>fact -- is a waste of time.  

Not really, I'm trying to learn something, that's the whole point. I just 

>So it is best to rule out the obvious...  
>such as silly energy saving rules which don't apply or which you don't 
>need.  

Silly energy saving rules are /exactly/ what I was looking for.

> In short, start from scratch. 

This /is/ scratch ;-)

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my first post. 

In the mean time, I believe I have figured out what to change.

Thank you :-)

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Jonathan Wilson
Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com