#!/bin/bash # powertop.debian: automatically sets up powertop --auto-tune on startup in Debian # # Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # [ "x${DEBUG+set}" = 'xset' ] && set -v set -u -e if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then printf "This script must be run as root\n" exit 1 fi # For Debian users. apt-get -y install powertop # Remove startup symlink if it exists update-rc.d powertop remove # Remove previous file if it exists rm -Rf "/etc/init.d/powertop" # write the correct commands there: printf "#!/bin/sh\n" > "/etc/init.d/powertop" printf "/usr/sbin/powertop --auto-tune\n" >> "/etc/init.d/powertop" # make it executable: chmod +x "/etc/init.d/powertop" # Add the service to make it run automatically at boot time: update-rc.d powertop defaults # Run powertop now and tell the user powertop --auto-tune printf "Done. Run 'powertop --auto-tune' now. This will also run automatically at boot time. Run it again at any time, if needed. This has also been done for you just now.\n"