--What make/model of computer are you using; is it a laptop, etc...

--You may have to go into the BIOS to disable power-saving stuff.

Quote Originally Posted by punk000
does anyone know how to prevent the system from entereing standby mode?...... when it does i lose the entire filesystem, kernel, daemons, everyhing... and its a apin to have to confire my dsl, email, gaim, and all of this stuff....

oh, and also, i see to be able to only cron one thing at a time, and only as root (i tried to cron some comands to prevent the computer from sleeping, but no luck)..... is there a fix to this?