Has anyone else noticed that the 991021 version of pmacpow doesn't seem
to work when specifying an absolute time?
The usage message says:
pmacpow [-u] [-w|e|q] [-d DAY] HH:MM
pmacpow +value[mhd]
u: RTC is in universal time
w: only on weekdays
e: only on weekends
q: quiet mode
d: specify day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
value: time in sec or min or hour or day ahead of current time
However, when I type:
pmacpow 06:20
it prints:
will be up again Sat May 11 22:04:05 2002
which appears to be 6 seconds in the future.
Examining the program in the debugger leads me to believe that the logic
in lines 236-257
236 tmp = strsep(×tr, ":");
237 if (tmp && (strlen(tmp) != strlen(argv[optind]))) {
238 if (!tmp || !timestr)
239 usage();
240 hour = atoi(tmp);
241 min = atoi(timestr);
242 sec = 0;
243 } else {
244 timestr = argv[optind];
245 sec = strtol(timestr, &tmp, 10);
246 if (tmp) {
247 switch (tolower(tmp[0])) {
248 case 'd':
249 sec *= 24;
250 case 'h':
251 sec *= 60;
252 case 'm':
253 sec *= 60;
254 break;
255 }
256 }
257 }
doesn't work as intended because strsep modifies both timestr and the
string. The program doesn't enter the first branch of the if statement
when it should.
The earlier 991019 version works fine, but doesn't support the +value
style of usage.
Peter Canning
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:25, Philipp Kaeser wrote:
> Hej Benja & Vinai,
>
> > > Is there any way to make a system boot @ a specific time?
> > If you have MacOS Classic on any of your partitions, you can use the
> > energy saver control panel to set a boot time, then set your favourite
> > bootloader to boot into Linux by default. There was a linux utility
> > that could set the hardware to do this, without MacOS, but the name or
> > its source do not come to me right now... It was mentioned waaay back
> > on one of the linuxppc mailing lists ...
>
> the utility is called 'pmacpow'. there is not much mention of it on google,
> and most links point void; so I have put two older versions online on
> http://www.gubbe.ch/download/pmacpow-tool-991019.tar.gz and
> http://www.gubbe.ch/download/pmacpow-tool-991021.tar.gz
>
> Note that a boot time is set only for the very next boot up process,
> in order to have your system boot regularly, it would be needed to
> execute it every time before shutdown.
> in case you write such a script, please let me know - I'd need it too,
> but am (was) too lazy to take care of it until now.
>
> have fun,
>
> Philipp Kaeser
>
>
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