Solaris

If you don't manually enter the magic packet into /dev/udp each time you want to wake up a machine, you're going to have to install something - whether that's a script your wrote or something somebody else wrote.

Even then, some machines that purport to support wake-on-lan are pretty crappy about it. You probably won't have any problems from enterprise-grade vendors like IBM, Sun/Oracle, or HP, but anything under that level could be problematic. I have a supposedly enterprise-grade Supermicro server that will only wake-on-lan after the OS boots and sets the proper flags in the ethernet interfaces. I can then shut it down and restart it with a magic packet. But if that server ever loses power the only way to restart it is to physically press the power button.

You are all, of course, correct in saying that there is no ip address to aim at if the machine is dead.

A magic packet generator (MPG) takes a MAC address as input and this is why the target machine must have BIOS support for wake-on-lan. The BIOS has the network adapter powered, even though the machine is off, to listen for a magic packet carrying that machines MAC address. If that is received, the machine powers up.

Although you don't want to install software most magic packet generators are a single executable, many of which will take the target MAC address as a command line argument.

I haven't looked for a Solaris MPG. First question is are we talking SPARC or X86?

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Sorry, I am an idiot. You've already said that it's SPARC.

ATM, not sure if perl is installed, and whether it has: 'use Socket; use Getopt::Std;'
I don't need portable solution. Its just for one specific PC and SPARC. packet can be 'crafted' on Linux.

If you have perl, the problem is solved. Perhaps you could be convinced to check?

I understand your fear of perl requirement madness, but those modules are all standard Perl, nothing weird.

If you looked, that source tarball I posted the link to is for a Fedora package.

You might want to try something like "yum install wol"....

(sorry for the delay, been busy)

I've tried that perl script 'wakeonlan' and it works beautifully on Debian (even without sudo). however, on Solaris it doesn't:

Code:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /export/home/user/bin/wakeonlan line 72. 
Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4 at /export/home/user/bin/wakeonlan line 72.

have to admit, I didn't use 'make' on either OS. simply started script.
the perl we got on Solaris is rather old, though.

@achenle
can that Fedora package be 'crosscompiled' for SPARC Solaris on Debian?



at this point, I'd rather use perl.
been using it regularly for other stuff on Debian anyway, and like it.

I found this...........

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/...eonlan/0.41-10

I don't know whether it's any use to you but it does say "Sparc binary" and has Perl listed as dependency.

I can't take this further as I'm not a Perl person.

And this.....

Sophie: wol-0:0.7.1-1 sparc