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 2.04 released with these changes

  • Fix getopt for --force-hal option. Closes: #600168
Posted Wednesday afternoon, October 20th, 2010

sleepd 1.13 released with these changes

  • Avoid crash by ignoring high irqs greater than 254 (assumption is these will not be irqs we care about). Thanks, Jeff Strunk.
  • Debhelper 7, minimal rules file.
  • Update copyright file.
Posted Tuesday afternoon, May 12th, 2009

sleepd 1.12 released with these changes

  • Write status back out to control file when resume from manual sleep causes sleeping to be re-enabled, so that sleepctl will see the correct status in this case. Closes: #501708
Posted at teatime on Thursday, October 9th, 2008