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System sleep depending on login & logout
Maybe I've missed something, but I see several problems with this approach. First, the system could easily be doing a scheduled backup or other maintenance activity when no one is logged in--this approach will disallow that. Also, what's wrong with the system sleeping when someone is logged in? If I understand the call to pmset here, even screen-dimming is being disabled while someone is logged in. This doesn't seem right to me.
System sleep depending on login & logout
Why wouldn't you want the machine to sleep when a user's logged in? Well, as the original poster said, during long downloads .... but also, if you do 3D graphics, video rendering or heavy-duty audio file rendering or similar crunching, you don't want your hard drives to go to sleep.
System sleep depending on login & logout
Yes, sometimes you don't want the system to sleep, but not having it sleep whenever someone is logged in defeats the whole purpose of the sleep timer. The hard disk is spun down when it hasn't been used recently, something that won't happen during a long download & doesn't matter anyway because it will spin right back up the next time it is accessed. If you are rendering something, the screen may dim or blank, that's true, but if you are there, just press fn and it will come back. If you aren't around, then it won't matter.
Greg Shenaut |
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