Anders Johansson wrote:
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
> >> 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?
Yes, wol <mac address> works fine. It just won't read the address from a file, using the methods described in the MAN page. Here's an what happens with the MAC as part of the command jknott@linux:~ $ wol 00:02:55:47:E0:7B Waking up 00:02:55:47:E0:7B... If I use wol -f netfinity, I don't get that "Waking up" line and the computer doesn't start. In fact, there is no response at all.
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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