On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Enno Fennema wrote: > Could anyone suggest a way to determine in a (shell) program whether my > computer was switched on by RTC alarm or by me pressing the power button. Check the wakeup reason in dmidecode. There is a very low, but non-zero chance that the BIOS implemented it properly, and it would tell you if it was a power-button wakeup, or rtc wakeup. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html