How to deep-sleep via command line?

[Sandman]

In article <b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.com> ,
[email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:

> My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
> or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
> there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
> goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
>
> Aside from fixing the specific problem, how do I tell my Mac to deep
> sleep via the command line? (e.g. when SSH'ed in from a remote
> location). Thanks!

sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'

Unfortunately, this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is logged
in).

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[Steve Lidie]

Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote:

> In article <b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.com> ,
> [email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:
>

>> My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
>> or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
>> there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
>> goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
>>
>> Aside from fixing the specific problem, how do I tell my Mac to deep
>> sleep via the command line? (e.g. when SSH'ed in from a remote
>> location). Thanks!

Typically, sleep kills network connections, so you shall have hung
yourself, as it were. Nevertheless:

man -k power

leads to:

man pmset

>
> sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'
>
> Unfortunately, this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is logged
> in).
>

[Tom Stiller]

In article <bfhmlm$qho@fidoii.CC.Lehigh.EDU>,
Steve Lidie <lusol@cube0.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:

> Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote:

> > In article <b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.com> ,
> > [email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:
> >

> >> My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
> >> or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
> >> there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
> >> goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
> >>
> >> Aside from fixing the specific problem, how do I tell my Mac to deep
> >> sleep via the command line? (e.g. when SSH'ed in from a remote
> >> location). Thanks!

>
> Typically, sleep kills network connections, so you shall have hung
> yourself, as it were. Nevertheless:
>
> man -k power
>
> leads to:
>
> man pmset

Which won't do what the OP wants.

>

> >
> > sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'
> >
> > Unfortunately, this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is
> > logged
> > in).
> >

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[Sandman]

In article <bfhmlm$qho@fidoii.CC.Lehigh.EDU>,
Steve Lidie <lusol@cube0.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:

> Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote:

> > In article <b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.com> ,
> > [email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:
> >

> >> My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
> >> or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
> >> there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
> >> goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
> >>
> >> Aside from fixing the specific problem, how do I tell my Mac to deep
> >> sleep via the command line? (e.g. when SSH'ed in from a remote
> >> location). Thanks!

>
> Typically, sleep kills network connections, so you shall have hung
> yourself, as it were. Nevertheless:

Your SSH connection dies, yes, but that's not a problem.

> man -k power
>
> leads to:
>
> man pmset

Which is a command line utility for setting power management settings. It's
identical to the energy saver preference pane in functionality. And you can't
use it to tell the machine to sleep.

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[Steven Kan]

[email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote in message news:<b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.c om>...

> My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
> or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
> there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
> goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
>

[snip]
Also, any tips on how to fix the sleeping problem? The Energy Saver
prefs are set with Separate Sleep for display un-checked and Spin Down
HDs unchecked.

Thanks!

[Steven Kan]

Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote in message news:<mr-32FF50.21241521072003@news.fu-berlin.de>...

> In article <b133d89.0307210900.1bd7cae5@posting.google.com> ,
> [email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:
>

> > My G4/450DP running 10.2.6 will deep-sleep if I press the power button
> > or if I select Sleep from the Apple menu, but if I just let it sit
> > there for 30-60 minutes, it only goes into light sleep (e.g. screen
> > goes dark and drives spin down, but the fans stay on).
> >
> > Aside from fixing the specific problem, how do I tell my Mac to deep
> > sleep via the command line? (e.g. when SSH'ed in from a remote
> > location). Thanks!

>
> sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'
>
> this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is logged in).

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Does this mean logged in graphically, or would my SSH login qualify?
Is there any way I can trigger a graphical login from my SSH session
and _then_ tell it to go to sleep?

[Sandman]

In article <b133d89.0307221621.3fdc7968@posting.google.com> ,
[email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:

> > sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'
> >
> > this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is logged in).

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Does this mean logged in graphically, or would my SSH login qualify?

No, the Finder needs to be running, which it doesn't if no one is logged in
'grapichally'

> Is there any way I can trigger a graphical login from my SSH session
> and _then_ tell it to go to sleep?

I don't think so no.

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[Frederick Cheung]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Sandman wrote:

> In article <b133d89.0307221621.3fdc7968@posting.google.com> ,
> [email]steven@kan.org[/email] (Steven Kan) wrote:
>

> > > sudo osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to sleep'
> > >
> > > this only works if the Finder is running (i.e. someone is logged in).

> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Does this mean logged in graphically, or would my SSH login qualify?

>
> No, the Finder needs to be running, which it doesn't if no one is logged in
> 'grapichally'
>

> > Is there any way I can trigger a graphical login from my SSH session
> > and _then_ tell it to go to sleep?

>
> I don't think so no.

you can send a sleep appleevent to the loginwindow process but you can't
talk to it via applescript, so writing a small program that does that
might work. However i seem to recall that sending applevents from a
process not run by a graphically logged in user is kinda icky.

Fred