svn commit: r195200 - in head/usr.sbin: . wake

[Marc Balmer]

Am 30.06.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Sam Leffler:

> Martin Blapp wrote:
>> Author: mbr
>> Date: Tue Jun 30 18:51:22 2009
>> New Revision: 195200
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195200
>>
>> Log:
>>  Add wake, a tool to send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local  
>> Ethernet network
>>    Submitted by:   Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch>
>>  Reviewed by:    rwatson
>>  Approved by:	re
>>
>
> what's wrong with ports/net/wol?
>

wake(8) is smaller and it is actually something needed in base.  in  
modern, ecological "green computing" environments we put the client  
machines, like our POS terminals to sleep at night.  In the morning,   
a cronjob from the central server wakes up all machines using this  
command.  more and more systems support it, so havin a wake command in  
base is just about right.