How can I set start up times for a Linux server? I’d like to adjust my net top to start up at 4 or 5 when I get home and shutdown at 12 .
Shutdown I can do with a cron job and
shutdown -h
but how can I set it to start up when I want?
no idea - only thing that springs to mind is to get a 2nd box to send a Wake-on-lan packet, assuming the nix box supports it
Does your motherboard support wake by RTC alarm - if so just set the time in bios and auto login on power up - shutdown by cron .
edit - less pretty is set power state to ‘on’ after power loss in bios and use a time socket adaptor to switch it on/off (after shutdown)
It says it supports Wake on Alarm which seems to be what you say so I’ve set that up and we’ll see what happens 
Hmm Timer box works for me…LOL!