How to keep Trunas running after closing the lid of the latop

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Hey guys! I’ve successfully installed TurNAS Community edition on my old laptop. Everything looks fine and running smoothly.

I want to close the lid of my laptop and keep the NAS running. Need your help. Thanks in advance!

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Look in the bios. It might have a setting for the laptops behavior when closing the lid. If you don’t find one, you might just have to leave it open.

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These are my notes on laptop lid events. This was designed to shutdown, but should give you hints on overriding shutdowns. Other than this, I can’t give you any further information.

Examine ACPI events:
sudo acpi_listen

Power management with lid events:
To make a laptop suspend to disk when closing the lid, create the
following ACPI action script;

/etc/acpi/actions/lid_close.sh
#!/bin/sh

/bin/grep -q close /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state
if [ ${?} = 0 ]; then
/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
exit 0

chmod 755 /etc/acpi/actions/lid_close.sh

Create a ACPI event file;
/etc/acpi/events/lid_close
event=button/lid LID close
action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid_close.sh

Reboot or restart ACPI;
sudo /etc/init.d/acpid restart

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Thank you. Will try!

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Will check it out. Thanks for the reply!