sleepd is a daemon to to put a laptop to sleep if it is not being used or if the battery is low.
It supports HAL, APM, and ACPI, although external programs must be used to actually put the system to sleep.
There is a Debian sleepd package, or you can download it from git
(git://git.kitenet.net/sleepd).
News
sleepd 1.11 released with these changes
- Tweak acpi/hal backend chosing logic to deal with being started before hal on a system without acpi power info. Closes: #494912
- Make init script depend on hal and move init script sequence number to after hal for new installs. Both changes avoid warning message in syslog, but the change above makes it ok if old installs don't follow suite.
sleepd 1.10 released with these changes
- If sleepd is only being used to sleep on low battery, avoid reading /proc/interrupts at all.
- Avoid sleeping if the battery is absent. (This includes simplehal reporting it as absent because hal has died.)
sleepd 1.9 released with these changes
- Fix -s. Closes: #469408