[Tyler McAdams]

I got a pda that has a wireless connection with which I can connect to my G4 wirelessly through ssh.... It would be great to be able to put it to sleep from ssh and then be able to wake it whenever for misc tasks.. is this possible?

[piracy]

Yes. To sleep:

http://www.snoize.com/SleepNow/

If you're always logged in:

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'

To wake up:

On a remote OS X machine:

WakeUp: http://www.coriolis.ch/article18.html

On any remote machine with perl:

Wakeonlan: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/

[piracy]

Also: Since you're doing this with a PDA, you'll need to find something that lets your PDA send out the "magic packet" that wakes up a machine when it is sleeping. Perhaps there is a tool for your particular PDA OS (PocketPC, PalmOS), or perhaps you can get a perl interpreter.

It would likely be easier to leave the machine always awake, and, if conserving energy is the goal, set the monitor to sleep and the hard disk to spin down. The machine is always ready for use, but is consuming very little power. If, on the other hand, paranoia is at work (i.e., "evil h4xx0rs will get me"), then knock yourself out.

[SMacTech]

Originally posted by piracy:
Also: Since you're doing this with a PDA, you'll need to find something that lets your PDA send out the "magic packet" that wakes up a machine when it is sleeping. Perhaps there is a tool for your particular PDA OS (PocketPC, PalmOS), or perhaps you can get a perl interpreter.

Good info there piracy. that was going to be my next question : what sends the magic 'packet' ?
So you have been able to wake a sleeping make with the coriolis software?

[piracy]

Originally posted by SMacTech:
Good info there piracy. that was going to be my next question : what sends the magic 'packet' ?
So you have been able to wake a sleeping make with the coriolis software?

For info on the WOL (Wake On LAN) packet, the "magic packet", see:

http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software...i-howto-2.html

And yes, you can wake any WOL-compliant sleeping machine with the WakeUp software.

[Tyler McAdams]

Thank you piracy, excellent information!