Handling processes / services on hibernation / wakeup in CentOS

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Hibernation is a great feature on any computer. It allows for a temporary pause in execution in which the system in question can be unplugged, cleaned, modified, or moved.

But what happens when some services don’t play nice and fail to resume properly from sleep? Fortunately, Linux’s power management utilities provide the necessary functionality…

Console commands to hibernate and standby on CentOS

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It’s great that Linux nowadays supports all the power management features available on computers. But it’s odd that beside the buttons to trigger standby/hibernate – which are only available in a graphical interface – there are no simple console commands to put the computer to sleep or into hibernation.