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Working with date and time preferences, Working with sleep preferences, Networksetup – Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) User Manual

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m Type “systemsetup -setrestartpowerfailure on” to restart the server automatically after a

power failure.

m To restart the server automatically if it freezes, type “systemsetup -setrestartfreeze on”.

m To enable the server to respond to events sent by other computers, such as AppleScript

programs, type “systemsetup -setremoteappleevents on”.

Working With Date and Time Preferences

You can use systemsetup to set up date and time preferences for a remote server:

m To set the current month, day, and year, type “systemsetup -setdate ”.

m To set the current hour, minutes, and seconds, type “systemsetup -settime

”.

m To set the server’s time zone, type “systemsetup -settimezone ”. To

determine which timezone values are valid, type “systemsetup -listtimezones”.

m To designate a network time server, type “systemsetup -setnetworktimeserver

address or dns name>”.

m To turn network time on, type “systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on”.

Working With Sleep Preferences

You can use systemsetup to set when a remote server sleeps and whether the server wakes
for different types of network activity. Remember, however, that while a server is asleep, you
can’t administer it remotely:

m To specify how many minutes the server can be inactive before going to sleep, type

“systemsetup -setsleep ”. If you don’t want the server to sleep, type “0”
or “never”.

m To specify that the server should wake from sleep when modem activity is detected, type

“systemsetup -setwakeonmodemactivity on”.

m To specify that the server should wake from sleep when a network admin packet is sent to

it, type “systemsetup -setwakeonnetworkaccess on”.

networksetup

Use networksetup to configure network services on a remote Mac OS X Server. A network
service
is a complete collection of settings for a specific network hardware port. “Built-in
Ethernet” is an example of a network service.

You may have one or several network services for a given hardware port. With networksetup
you can

m enable or disable network services

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