Give user permission to hibernate with systemctl on Ubuntu

I decided to give an Ubuntu based distro a try on my laptop and installed Linux Mint. I was surprised that hibernate doesn't just work by default in 2025. There are plenty of tutorials on how to enable it though, so I am assuming that you have already

  • Made your swap file or partition large enoug...
Linux systemd hibernate ubuntu mint sleep
Automatically perform fsck after a crash

I still haven't completely solved the problem of my PC sometimes failing to resume from sleep, and when it happens it acts as if it had crashed and then just starts up normally. This means I wan't to check the disks to make sure the file system is all OK. This can be done on Slackware by creating a...

slackware script elogind systemd suspend
docker exec error from cron job with OCI runtime exec failed

I have a cron job which dumps my influx database nightly before borg does a backup of it. It does that by running influx backup in the container with the command: 

docker exec influx /usr/local/bin/influx backup /backups

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it gives the error OCI runtime exec f...

bash docker influxdb elogind systemd logind cron