Roger Deschner wrote:
>
> We had thought of setting a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND of "shutdown", but that
> has a severe problem. What if you were working late, because of an
> urgent project, and backup ran. Your computer would then shut down
> without saving what you were working on, and precisely because it was
> urgent enough for you to be working on it late, this would be very
> valuable work that would be lost.

What about a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND that puts the computer into hibernate
or standby mode instead of shutting it down?  On the days someone is
working late, they can just wake it back up.  If this situation is the
exception rather than the rule, you still come out ahead most of the
time; most workstations would be suspended most nights.

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