sdd is Shut Down Daemon

It is a Linux service to shut down a server down as soon as it can (to save power).
Restarting the server (wakeonlan etc.) is not covered in this document.

TYPICAL USAGE

A home NAS which is turned on when needed, manually or by wakeonlan
but should shut down automatically when no users are using it any more.


HDPARM

hdparm is a very useful tool under Linux with which hard drives can be
configured and monitored.

Set hard disk spindown with hdparm:

  hdparm -S <Int>

or with /etc/hdparm.conf

  /dev/sdb {
    spindown_time = 240
  }

See man page for hdparm for details of spindown_time.

See example config.yml file for configuration options, or application help:

  sdd --help


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

For Debian/Ubuntu:
Copy examples/etc/sdd.conf to your /etc directory and modify it for your system
Copy examples/init.d/sdd to your /etc/init.d directory and run
update-rc.d sdd defaults
        
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

https://github.com/robin13/sdd

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 Robin Clarke

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

