Adjusting prefs from the command line
To adjust the various system preferences from the command line you need the systemsetup utility which ships with OSX Server although I’ve found some versions of OS X client have it installed in /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support. On my G5 with Tiger (10.4.8) installed I used systemsetup-tiger and on my iMac (Intel) that was missing so I used systemsetup-panther which also worked.
You can adjust all sorts of things with the tool -help shows you all the options, I wanted to adjust sleep times. Below is an example session, showing the settings before and after I had made the change
# ./systemsetup-panther -getsleep Sleep: Computer sleeps after 10 minutes Sleep: Display sleeps after 10 minutes Sleep: Disk sleeps after 10 minutes # sudo ./systemsetup-panther -setcomputersleep 60 setcomputersleep: 60 # ./systemsetup-panther -getsleep Sleep: Computer sleeps after 60 minutes Sleep: Display sleeps after 10 minutes Sleep: Disk sleeps after 10 minutes
Hi,
I wanted to know what you used for creating those boxes to keep your command in? i need something similar for my documentation. If you dont mind please email details of how i can set this up.