Comments on: How to Remotely Sleep a Mac from Anywhere with SSH or an iPhone

By: GMG

GMG — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:14:16 +0000

Not sure if this is due to Mountain Lion, but I’m finding this excellent solution no longer works and have tried without success to find a solution.
While the rule remains in the Preferences for Mail, next to button “Run AppleScript” is another button “No Scripts Installed”. I went into the finder and found the original script “sleepmac.scpt” and tried to reconnect it. The only option is “Open in Finder”, but it doesn’t allow me to choose this as the script. Annoyingly, I can open it, but not assign it to run. Have you found a fix?

By: Sleep a Mac from the Command Line

Sleep a Mac from the Command Line — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:28:43 +0000

[...] latter AppleScript is also used in our guide on how to remotely put a Mac to sleep using an iPhone or ssh. stLight.options({ [...]

By: Put a Mac to Sleep Using an Apple Remote Control

Put a Mac to Sleep Using an Apple Remote Control — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:07:37 +0000

[...] an IR port, or if you’re not in the same room (let alone the same state), you can always sleep a Mac with email or using SSH after some minimal [...]

By: jch

jch — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:02:19 +0000

For SSH, you should use a public key and disable password access. Anything else on a computer of any kind connected to the Internet is asking for trouble.

By: jch

jch — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:01:34 +0000

Considering how easy it is to forge a sender address for email, I wouldn’t recommend any kind of email triggered action like this.

You would be seriously unimpressed if someone decided to send a sleep now messages a hundred times a day.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:35:18 +0000

I second the “pmset sleepnow” method… minimal standard in and no root requirement.

By: Jindra Saur

Jindra Saur — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:48:43 +0000

chittu: U can use program WakeOnLan. There is also dashboard gadget with the same name. Or (if you have any Linux machine) use command “wakeonlan -i your_proadcast_ip_address your_device_hardware_address”

By: Jindra Saur

Jindra Saur — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:44:48 +0000

I use “pmset sleepnow”

By: Rune

Rune — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:14:44 +0000

Great! tip Is there a fast way to wake up my Mac also? If I for example want to use logmein from work to control my sleeping home machine.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0000

Another option is “shutdown -s now”
You have to be root to do it though. Thanks for the intro to the osascript command.

By: chittu

chittu — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:40:22 +0000

How to wake up over ssh?

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:28:14 +0000

Thank you, this was very useful and seems to be a fast method of triggering Sleep. I am sometimes on a different floor from my Mac and do not put it sleep because something is downloading.

By: Come spegnere il Mac da remoto

Come spegnere il Mac da remoto — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:13:40 +0000

[...] Clicchiamo su OK quindi su Applica per impostare la regola alle caselle di posta elettronica selezionate (in caso di piu’ account sul sistema). Per verificare che tutto funzioni correttamente inviamo un’email utilizzando le impostazioni definite nella regola ma prima di farlo, salviamo il lavoro svolto! Fonte - osXdaily [...]

By: vdiv

vdiv — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:04:17 +0000

For crying out loud, don’t tell people to run sshd on their computer when they don’t necessarily know how to secure it. People need to learn how to setup a Firewall on the Mac first and secure their router.

Why not just set the System Preferences: Energy Saver to put the system to sleep if idle after certain time?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:54:19 +0000