Re: Startup, shutdown
Re: Startup, shutdown
- Subject: Re: Startup, shutdown
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:18:41 -0800
On 11/21/05, "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 22/11/05 00:03 Marin Orpen wrote:
>> on 21/11/05 23:38, Marc K. Myers at email@hidden wrote:
>>
>> > The System Preferences' energy saver pane allows you to schedule a
>> cold start, so I assume that there is some underlying Unix utility that
>> > supports it. I just can't find it. It does prove that a shut down
>> > computer can, somehow, restart itself.
>>
>> man pmset
>>
>> "pmset allows you to schedule system sleep, shutdown, wakeup and/or
>> power on. "schedule" is for setting up one-time power events, and
>> "repeat" is for setting up daily/weekly power on and power off events."
>
> That's looks great but I can't get it to work. I'm running OS 10.3.9.
> When I attempt to use the "schedule" or "repeat" parameters the result
> is a listing of the command's syntax. Is there some trick here I'm not
> getting? I used the command with "sudo" and tried it as root. I got
> the same result either way.
>
> [marcs-ibook:~] marc% sudo pmset schedule shutdown '11/22/05 08:00:00'
> Password:
> Usage: pmset [-b | -c | -u | -a] <action> <minutes> [<action>
> <minutes>...]
> pmset -g [disk | cap | live | sched | ups]
> -c adjust settings used while connected to a charger
> -b adjust settings used when running off a battery
> -u adjust settings used while running off a UPS
> -a (default) adjust settings for both
> <action> is one of: dim, sleep, spindown (with a minutes
> argument)
> or: reduce, dps, womp, ring, autorestart, powerbutton,
> lidwake, acwake, ams (with a 1 or 0 argument)
> or for UPS only: haltlevel (with a percentage argument)
> haltafter, haltremain (with a minutes argument)
> eg. pmset -c dim 5 sleep 15 spindown 10 autorestart 1 womp 1
> [marcs-ibook:~] marc%
Don't you just love clear and concise examples? Maybe without the quotes
because the manpage doesn't call for these as strings, as distinct from
weekdays and owner?
sudo pmset schedule shutdown 11/22/05 08:00:00-untested
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