[voodoo]

I have this silly situation with OS X. The damn machine always goes to sleep in a predetermined time and the prefs are locked!

I'd like to change the prefs so the machine will not go to sleep at all. Is it at all possible?

(I am not the admin on this machine)

[sbjordal]

Dude, they're locked for a reason..to prevent non-admins from fscking up the settings

[Xeo]

It can't be done. You'll have to get the admin to do it.

[tooki]

...other than by resetting the password, which is documented on Apple's site.

But you'd be better off asking the system admin to unlock it for you, unless you want to be on his list of people he doesn't like!

tooki

[voodoo]

Originally posted by tooki:
...other than by resetting the password, which is documented on Apple's site.

But you'd be better off asking the system admin to unlock it for you, unless you want to be on his list of people he doesn't like!

tooki

Thanks tooki!

I may live with the irritation for now. The machine I am working on goes to sleep after 7 minutes of inactivity which is just fabulously short. Especially when it goes to sleep while unstuffing files. It is a friggin narcoleptic!!

(it naturally had a kernel panic when I woke it up after it had fallen asleep while unstuffing)

[SubGeniux]

I'm not sure if it's allowable to post hacking stuff here, but.. with a bit of unix savvy, you could do it to allow full root access on the machine, haven't tried in X, but works in irix. Let me know if you're interested.

Requires a bit of command line knowledge and a watchful eye on what you're doing, plus will give you full root access. not sure if it'll go down too well with your admin.

[drmbb2]

Originally posted by SubGeniux:
I'm not sure if it's allowable to post hacking stuff here, but.. with a bit of unix savvy, you could do it to allow full root access on the machine, haven't tried in X, but works in irix. Let me know if you're interested.

Requires a bit of command line knowledge and a watchful eye on what you're doing, plus will give you full root access. not sure if it'll go down too well with your admin.

I know this, try something like that at our center and you will never be allowed back on our machines - ever. Just ask the admin to change it - what is he/she, an ogre or something? Or even ask them to include a "never sleep" corner so you could suspend sleep for long tasks. Our admins (I'm one of them) don't mind making configuration adjustments for reasonable requests.

[Cipher13]

Sleeps after SEVEN minutes of inactivity???

That's majorly unhealthy...

This admin doesn't deserve to be dealing out the privs, unless he has a damn good excuse.

It's easy to gain root access, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's asking for trouble (on a legal level).