[Pm-utils] How to use pm-utils with /etc/hibernate?

S. B. sb56637 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 09:21:20 PDT 2008


Thanks for the reply!  I tried your suggestion, but I can't figure out
how to make it work as a regular user.  The /usr/sbin/hibernate script
requires root.

On 5/27/08, Nigel Cunningham <nigel at suspend2.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:29 -0500, S. wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I use Debian and Gnome, and therefore pm-utils is required on my
>> system.  However, I personally prefer the "hibernate" package, with its
>> config files in /etc/hibernate.  Is there any way to make the pm-utils
>> system automatically pass control to the /etc/hibernate configuration
>> system?
>
> Not natively. A TuxOnIce user reported just yesterday that simply moving
> pm-hibernate out of the way and doing ln -s /path/to/hibernate
> pm-hibernate did the trick for them. Hacky though :\.
>
> Nigel
>
>


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