[Yu Sa]

How can I Turn On my G4/400 AUTOMATICALY with the internal clock ?. I have to make a 7 day trip and I need my E-mails downloaded every day......
and I need that my MAC do this alone..... for example stay ON for 5 hours.... run my 2 MAIL programs, automatly download my E-mails, and 5 Hours later shut down..... and the same every day........

Thank You all of you !!!!!!

[SMacTech]

I haven't tried this in awhile, but if you set the turn-on turn-off times in OS9, OS X would use them.

[Developer]

Turn off sleep (except for the screen of course) and keep it running.

[awaspaas]

I agree with Developer - I left mine running for 3 weeks with the screen off to sort my emails while i was gone.

[Yu Sa]

Yes....... BUT I LIVE IN ARGENTINA !!!! and the ELECTRICITY ITS TOO EXPENSIVE HERE..... !!!!!!!

I NEED MY MAC TO TURN ON FOR 3 HOURS AND THEN TURN OFF ....
THE SAME FOR A WEEK

[Toyin]

Originally posted by Yu Sa:
Yes....... BUT I LIVE IN ARGENTINA !!!! and the ELECTRICITY ITS TOO EXPENSIVE HERE..... !!!!!!!

I NEED MY MAC TO TURN ON FOR 3 HOURS AND THEN TURN OFF ....
THE SAME FOR A WEEK

There's really no need to yell. Did you even check Version Tracker?

[awaspaas]

Originally posted by Yu Sa:
Yes....... BUT I LIVE IN ARGENTINA !!!! and the ELECTRICITY ITS TOO EXPENSIVE HERE..... !!!!!!!

I NEED MY MAC TO TURN ON FOR 3 HOURS AND THEN TURN OFF ....
THE SAME FOR A WEEK

I'm.... sorry *sniff*

[andreas_g4]

Could you speak a bit louder? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

Seriously: What model do you have? There are quite some differences in power consumption. When the HD is down most of the time, as the monitor, it shouldn't eat too much...

[Yu Sa]

My MAC ........ is G4/400. With a 17 monitor......

Thanks !

[Sophie]

How large mail account do you have? I myself have I think 15MB and that should hold me atleast for 7 days. The reason I ask is that if you are not home then why do you need to download your mail. Is the mailserver unreliable and you don't trust it to not crash?

One other idea is to use hotmail or yahoo internet based mailservice so that you can collect your mail from anywhere. If you set the mailbox to leave messages at the server then you will have then there when you get back also.

[Terri]

Originally posted by Yu Sa:
My MAC ........ is G4/400. With a 17 monitor......

Thanks !

I have a Mac G4 AGP 450 and it uses next to no electric if I turn off the monitors and spin down the drives. I think it might use more electric to shut down and boot each day then just leaving it always on.

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by Sophie:
How large mail account do you have? I myself have I think 15MB and that should hold me atleast for 7 days. The reason I ask is that if you are not home then why do you need to download your mail. Is the mailserver unreliable and you don't trust it to not crash?

That's no good idea. As in your case, 15 MB will last far beyond 7 days but only when recieving text-only mails. In my case, after one day or two, my malibox would be full due to my friends stupid "hey, look at this funny movie" emails... And I'm quite sure many people recieve mails with attachments (even ones that are important/buisiness stuff) frequently. By the way, I don't wanna miss the funny ones, too!

[Sophie]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
...but only when recieving text-only mails. ...By the way, I don't wanna miss the funny ones, too!

Ah, didn't think about that one.

[lawgeek]

edit: nevermind I can't read

[BTP]

As to power consumption, the monitor (CRT) takes the vast majority of the power.

Keeping your computer on for 3 weeks without the monitor will not use much electricity *at all*. With the HD's spun down, this this is not going to use crap for electricity. So that is a very viable option.

[hurricanej]

Originally posted by Yu Sa:
How can I Turn On my G4/400 AUTOMATICALY with the internal clock?

In System Preferences, check out the Energy Saver options. One of them is "Restart automatically after power failure." Try experimenting with this. If your mac is turned off and suddenly gets power, will it boot up?

If so, you could obtain one of those cheap electric adapters that lets you schedule when appliances should turn on and off.

It's not a perfect solution, but maybe combined with the shutdown command....

-hurricanej

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by hurricanej:
In System Preferences, check out the Energy Saver options. One of them is "Restart automatically after power failure." Try experimenting with this. If your mac is turned off and suddenly gets power, will it boot up?

If so, you could obtain one of those cheap electric adapters that lets you schedule when appliances should turn on and off.

It's not a perfect solution, but maybe combined with the shutdown command....

-hurricanej

Brilliant.

Use a timer for the electricity to switch it on and run a cron job (use CronniX if you need a graphical interface for it) to run a mail check and shut down your computer automatically at a certain time.

That way, you have no drive corruption, and everything works as you need.

Two points:

a) make sure the computer is shut down *before* the electricity switches off.

b) it might make sense (unless you're on a modem connection) to have your computer set to synchronize its internal clock with a network server. If the internal battery is low, the clock will reset itself if electricity is cut off for too long. This will mess up your crontab timing.

You might work around b) by only cutting electricity for 5 or 10 minutes just before start-up time. The computer would be shut down long before that anyway.

Good luck experimenting!

-s*

[LeeG]

try iBeeZz it seems to do what you want - though I haven't used it.

OS9 had that feature built in...so it may show up in later X revisions.


Lee

[rytc]

This seems like a f%$king Mickey mouse solution for something that can be done with Software. Apple removed *didn't add - for those perfectionists* this feature so surely there's some shareware out there that restores the OS 9 ability.

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Brilliant.

Use a timer for the electricity to switch it on and run a cron job (use CronniX if you need a graphical interface for it) to run a mail check and shut down your computer automatically at a certain time.

That way, you have no drive corruption, and everything works as you need.

Two points:

a) make sure the computer is shut down *before* the electricity switches off.

b) it might make sense (unless you're on a modem connection) to have your computer set to synchronize its internal clock with a network server. If the internal battery is low, the clock will reset itself if electricity is cut off for too long. This will mess up your crontab timing.

You might work around b) by only cutting electricity for 5 or 10 minutes just before start-up time. The computer would be shut down long before that anyway.

Good luck experimenting!

-s*

[Nai no Kami]

Originally posted by Yu Sa:
Yes....... BUT I LIVE IN ARGENTINA !!!! and the ELECTRICITY ITS TOO EXPENSIVE HERE..... !!!!!!!

I NEED MY MAC TO TURN ON FOR 3 HOURS AND THEN TURN OFF ....
THE SAME FOR A WEEK

Pibe: claramente vos NO vivís en Argentina. No hagás quedar mal a los argentinos, por favor.


For the rest: If this guy has a G4 Mac in Argentina, he surely can afford any electricity cost.

[tooki]

The "restore after power failure" does its thing if the Mac was on when the power went off. If I recall correctly (I'm not sure about this!), if you shut down the computer, then it will not respond to power being restored.

There's also a programmable power strip called a PowerKey. Maybe it's worth checking out.

tooki

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by rytc:
This seems like a f%$king Mickey mouse solution for something that can be done with Software. Apple removed *didn't add - for those perfectionists* this feature so surely there's some shareware out there that restores the OS 9 ability.

Um... people have posted links to software in this thread several times. What I can't figure out is why they keep getting ignored!

Here's the link to the shareware/freeware programs on VersionTracker that can set the auto-startup and shutdown that someone posted way up near the top of the thread.

[Toyin]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Um... people have posted links to software in this thread several times. What I can't figure out is why they keep getting ignored!

Here's the link to the shareware/freeware programs on VersionTracker that can set the auto-startup and shutdown that someone posted way up near the top of the thread.

Thank you CharlesS. I've been finding this thread to be entertaining. I find it funny that I posted a link to 3 viable applications to solve his problem an hour after his initial post. You're a nicer person than I. I would have left them hanging.

[OwlBoy]

and is Mac or mac, not MAC The damn thing is not a ****ing acronym it dont stand for something. you look like a nut when you say MAC.

-Owl

[Richyfp]

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
and is Mac or mac, not MAC The damn thing is not a ****ing acronym it dont stand for something. you look like a nut when you say MAC.

-Owl

True, true.

However, MAC does in fact stand for one of two things:

• Macintosh Accessory Centre
• Media Access Control

[besson3c]

MAC = My Ass Cow