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.
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