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Editing System Preference in Terminal

Mac OS X 10.6: Leopard - I'm trying to create a script that will run on its own that can edit system preferences. I've done some digging, and found that a lot of system preference options are controlled by .plist files in ~/library/preferences, /library/preferences, and /system/library/preferences. However, I have yet to figure out how to edit certain functions. Specifically:
Turn on/off file sharing
Change screen saver
And some other functions like those.

My problem is twofold: For one, I can't find the file sharing plist file, and, secondly, I can't figure out a way to edit the plist files such that it makes any difference. For example, I found the plist file for screen saver, but try as I might, I couldn't get editing it to do what I wanted. And this was using plist editor. I'd imagine that once I try to port this to command line, it'll be even harder (presumably using the defaults write command). Any suggestions?

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gnome-power-preferences

gnome-power-preferences(1)					   User Commands					gnome-power-preferences(1)

NAME

       gnome-power-preferences - gnome power preferences GUI

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-power-preferences [--help] [--verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-power-preferences	is a GUI configuration program. It enables you to configure your preferred desktop power management policies, e.g.
       blank screen when lid is closed, hibernate system when battery power is low, suspend system when power button is pressed, or let  CPU  fre-
       quency dynamically adjust based on process load. Then, these policies are enforced by gnome-power-manager(1).

OPTIONS

       This  program  follows  the usual  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       --help	       Show summary of options.

       --verbose       Show extra debugging.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching gnome-power-preferences with the display of extra debugging messages.

       example% gnome-power-preferences --verbose

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-power-preferences

	   Executable for gnome power preferences GUI

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-power-manager	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-power-manager(1), gnome-power-statistics(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       This manual page was written by Oliver Grawert ogra@ubuntu.com for the Debian system.

       Updated by Simon Zheng, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    18 Feb 2008 					gnome-power-preferences(1)