Eric Brown

I have created a new utility for Mac OS X called Sleep Timeout. Its purpose is to automatically shut down the system if it has been sleeping for longer than the user-specified timeout interval. It does this by automatically waking the system after the timeout interval and then performing a safe shut down.

The utility is controlled by a System Preferences pane which allows the service to be started, stopped and the timeout interval to be changed.

It currently requires Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). This first release is really a Beta release as I have not been able to test it in a large number of configurations. It has not yet been tested on a Mac Mini although I don't expect that to be a problem.

Please let me know if you have any problems, questions or ideas for improvement.

- Eric

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	SleepTimeout-1.0b1.zip (61.3 KB, 131 views)

jaeger

awesome. it's a great idea, and thanks for your input. [runs off to test it]

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Bugbyte

Nice first post, dude. Thanks for the utility. I'll be testing it on my mini real soon.

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viper24

hey, sounds like you might be able to help us with some mac software stuff...

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elcapitan

I'll be testing it in the morning! Thanks!

papimachulo

Thank you, Eric. This utility works great!

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Great utility