OS X Screen Saver vs. Timed Scripts
OS X Screen Saver vs. Timed Scripts
- Subject: OS X Screen Saver vs. Timed Scripts
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:23:28 EDT
Gary,
Rather than talk about bugs in the screensaver, I'm going
to talk about specific answers to the crashing you are
getting and solutions... You might want to look at a couple
options:
1. Turn off the screensaver altogether. Modern phosphors
don't burn in readily, and if it's an issue, set the
desktop color to black. Or switch the monitor off manually
when you leave (or whenever the last person leaves, or just
generally leave it off, as befits a server).
2. There is a remotely-controllable power strip called
PowerKey Pro USB, by Sophisticated Circuits (see:
http://www.sophisticated.com/products/powerkey/pkp_650.html
), which permits you to do a hard reboot by calling it on
the phone & punching some numbers (share a regular fax line
or phone line). It also permits scheduled
power-on/power-off to a various outlets, and the pro
version has a system monitor that will hard-reboot the
system if it hangs.
3. Check the energy control panel settings. If the hard
drive is set to cycle-down after a certain amount of
inactivity, or if the processors are set to reduced
cycling, reset both to be active all the time. The time it
takes a drive to cycle up can result in a time-out error on
a script, especially in a hard drive intensive app like
filemaker.
Best Wishes,
=-= Marc Glasgow
Gary Wrote (synopsis):
Machine hangs in OS X when scripts try to run while unit is in 'sleep mode'
or in screen-saver mode. Can't reboot remotely, unit needs hard reboot when
this happens. I'm not where the server is, so how do I reboot remotely?
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