systemd-inhibit

Prohibit the system from entering certain power states. Inhibitor locks may be used to block or delay system sleep and shutdown requests as well as automatic idle handling. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-inhibit.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/systemd-inhibit.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install systemd
Ubuntu
apt-get install systemd
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S systemd
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install systemd
CentOS
yum install systemd
Fedora
dnf install systemd
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install systemd
Raspbian
apt-get install systemd
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/systemd-inhibit

Prohibit the system from entering certain power states. Inhibitor locks may be used to block or delay system sleep and shutdown requests as well as automatic idle handling. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-inhibit.html>.

  • List all active inhibition locks and the reasons for their creation:
    systemd-inhibit --list
  • Block system shutdown for a specified number of seconds with the `sleep` command:
    systemd-inhibit --what shutdown sleep 5
  • Keep the system from sleeping or idling until the download is complete:
    systemd-inhibit --what sleep:idle wget https://example.com/file
  • Ignore lid close switch until the script exits:
    systemd-inhibit --what sleep:handle-lid-switch path/to/script
  • Ignore power button press while command is running:
    systemd-inhibit --what handle-power-key command
  • Describe who and why created the inhibitor (default: the command and its arguments for `--who` and `Unknown reason` for `--why`):
    systemd-inhibit --who $USER --why reason --what operation command

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