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Even a supposedly sleeping Mac will wake up from time to time, doing exactly what I don’t know. But I consistently see it in the logs.
by hanche 7y ago
Even a supposedly sleeping Mac will wake up from time to time, doing exactly what I don’t know. But I consistently see it in the logs.
- gns24 7y agoIt will sync email and other things so that everything is already downloaded when you wake it up. See https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204032 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204032
- diebeforei485 7y ago> Mobile Device Management can remotely lock and wipe your Mac. I appreciate the transparency here. Outside of API documentation, a lot of plain-language information doesn't go in-depth enough about MDM capabilities.
- hanche 7y agoAh, thanks. That jogged my memory. I did turn off power nap a long time ago, but my laptop still kept waking up at night anyhow. But I just checked, and now it seems to work as advertised.
- sleepless 7y agoWouldn't it be fantastic, if Apple had an easy way to help users learn, why their mac woke up? Currently that is complex scientific work.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoAnd it won’t do CRON because reasons
- verisimilitude 7y agoBugs me too. Your best bet is launchd which solves the problem, but it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists. More here: https://www.launchd.info https://www.launchd.info
- pcnix 7y agoThis is a useful library for plists, in case you're interested - https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html
- latexr 7y ago> it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists http://launched.zerowidth.com/ http://launched.zerowidth.com/ makes it easier.
- iamwpj 7y agoIronically -- I think this bug is fixed in a like 10.15.3 or so. Eitherway a cron I set up over a year ago before I realized this bug has started mailing me since I updated to Catalina.
- teilo 7y agoYes, I know this, but when a Mac does this, it does it only to run routine Apple code, stuff that should not, under any circumstances, cause a kernel panic. And up until Catalina, that it never has, barring binary corruption or defective hardware. In this case, the kernel panic seems to be related to the Intel Iris video driver.