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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.


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