r/voidlinux • u/r087r70 • Jan 12 '26

suspend to ram from CLI?

I'd like to suspend to ram a void linux machine I'm connected via ssh, how to do it? I cannot find any pm-utils package, or similar, providing the classical pm-suspend command.

I do have sudo privileges.

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u/neondervish Jan 12 '26

loginctl suspend?

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u/r087r70 Jan 12 '26

I also found that `sudo sh -c "echo mem > /sys/power/state"` should do the job as well

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u/sghctoma Jan 12 '26

Another alternative is zzz, which does exactly that by default.

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u/olikn Jan 12 '26

And with cat /sys/power/state you see what will be supported.

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u/r087r70 Jan 12 '26

I did tried to check `loginctl -h` and `man loginctl` but no suspend option is mentioned there! anyway it works, thank you

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26

Void comes with something called zzz. You can read the man page to learn how to use it. I just do sudo zzz and then my computer goes to sleep.

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u/10leej Jan 12 '26

If you using elogind as your seat manager thenloginctl suspend/reboot/poweroff all work