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I get another computer to wake up my mac...
Authored by: a1291762 on May 05, '02 06:38:30PM

Obviously this is only usefull if you have another computer (on the same network)...

I have an old pentium (that I used before I got my iMac) and it runs FreeBSD (any Unix should be fine, it should also be fine to run Windows). 15 minutes before the Mac is meant to do maintenance, it sends a wake up packet (On the mac, Energy Saver -> Wake on Network Administrative Access) that wakes up the mac.

I used a perl script. I think there's a hint on this site with the script in it.

To make sure my clocks stay in sync, I use timed. I also run NTP on my mac so it gets the "correct" time when I connect to the internet (via modem).



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