Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2442 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 29 June 2007 21:00:20 James Knott wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Friday 29 June 2007 20:35:26 James Knott wrote:
> >> Anders Johansson wrote:
> >>> On Friday 29 June 2007 13:13:54 James Knott wrote:
> >>>> Jos van Kan wrote:
> >>>>> James Knott wrote:
> >>>>>> I've installed wol (wake on lan) on my system.  While it works fine
> >>>>>> if I supply the mac address as part of the command, it doesn't read
> >>>>>> the mac from a file.  I've tried both wol -f filename and wol
> >>>>>> --file=filename. Even using wol<filename doesn't work.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any suggestions?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> wol $(cat [path_to_]filename_containing_mac_address)
> >>>>
> >>>> While that does work, I'd still like to know why the documented
> >>>> methods don't.
> >>>
> >>> What do you have in your file? It should contain more than just your
> >>> mac address
> >>
> >> Such as???  WOL creates a magic packet that contains the MAC address.
> >> What else has to be included?  Using only the MAC address from the
> >> command line works fine.
> >
> > Your options for the file are
> >
> > MAC host port password
> > MAC host password
> > MAC host port
> > MAC host
> >
> > MAC alone won't do, the parser expects one of the above
>
> The MAC alone certainly works fine when included on the command line.
> Also, the items you mentioned are options that are not necessary for
> basic operation.

Did it work?

> For example, you'd specify host if the computer you're 
> issuing the command from has more than one network adapter, so that the
> magic packet is sent on the right interface.  The port is used if
> necessary to get past some packet filter.  The password would be used
> with a SecureOn capable NIC.  All this is described in the wol man
> page.  If they are required when reading from a file, they should also
> be required when including the MAC as part of the file.

I would suggest filing a bug report with the developer then
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