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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers atime, ctime, mtime somewhere along csize.. Post 64914 by moxxx68 on Wednesday 2nd of March 2005 05:14:22 PM
Old 03-02-2005
thanks for the reply,
i guess I will just have to make do with the commands I tried..
moxxx68
 

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guess(8)							   NVRAM WakeUp 							  guess(8)

NAME
guess - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM. SYNOPSIS
guess DESCRIPTION
guess tries to figure out the position of the wakeup time settings in the NVRAM. Just run guess from within the directory, where the four NVRAM dumps at stored as "31.23.59.59+", "11.12.13.14+", "01.00.00.00+" and "01.00.00.00-". The file names denote the wakeup time, you have to set manually, before dumping the NVRAM: <DD>.<HH>.<MM>.<SS><status> <DD> = Day of month <HH> = Hour <MM> = Minute <SS> = Second <status> = wakeup enabled (+) or disabled (-) SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess-helper(8), README.mb HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/ AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at the bug tracking system (see HOMEPAGE) or on the mailing list nvram-wakeup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Sergei Haller. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Linux Jul 07 2004 guess(8)
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