gnome-sys-suspend(1) User Commands gnome-sys-suspend(1)
NAME
gnome-sys-suspend - suspend or shut down the system and power off
SYNOPSIS
gnome-sys-suspend [-fnxh] [-d displayname]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-sys-suspend provides options to suspend or shut down the whole system.
A system may be suspended to conserve power or to prepare the system for transport. Do not use the suspend operation when performing any
hardware reconfiguration or replacement.
During a suspend operation, the current system state is preserved until a resume operation is performed at the next power on.
During a resume in the windows environment, the system invokes lockscreen to ensure that only the authorized person has access to the sys-
tem. In a non-windows environment, the user is prompted for a password.
It is possible that when devices or processes are performing critical or time-sensitive operations (such as real-time operations), the sys-
tem might fail to suspend. When this occurs, the system remains in its current running state. Messages reporting the failure are displayed
on the console. Once the system is successfully suspended, the resume operation always succeeds, barring external influences such as hard-
ware reconfiguration.
During a shutdown operation, rc0 scripts are run, processes are killed, pending data is written to the disks, and the system is powered
off.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d displayname Connect to the X server specified by displayname. The format of displayname is described in X11(7).
-f Force suspend. Use this option with care. Using this option causes the system to force all processes to stop. Do not use
this option during unattended operations.
-h Change the default operation from suspend to shutdown.
-n Disable selection. This option disables the selection popup dialog at invocation time.
-x Disable lockscreen. This option disables the execution of lockscreen at resume time.
FILES
/usr/bin/gnome-sys-suspend Executable for the command.
/etc/default/sys-suspend File that sets a default value for the PERMS variable. PERMS determines who is allowed to use the gnome-
sys-suspend command. Valid values are:
all Any user can use the command.
- Only superuser can use the command.
user1, user2, ... Any user in this user list, and superuser, can use the command.
console-owner A user who owns the system console device node, and superuser, can use the command.
This is the default value.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-sys-suspend |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
X11(7), cpr(7), powerd(1M), shutdown(1M), xlock(1)
NOTES
Lockscreen on resume can be disabled by default. Add the following line to the user's .Xdefaults or .OWdefaults file:
Syssuspend*xlock: False
If xlock(1) is used for lockscreen functionality, its mode defaults to life. To change this, add the following line to the user's .Xde-
faults or .OWdefaultsfile:
Syssuspend*xlockmode: <xlockmode>
This man page is based on sys-suspend(1M).
Updated by Narayana Pattipati for Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 27 May 2004 gnome-sys-suspend(1)