Simple Restart of Mac wanted
My office requires each computer to logout after hours. For security reasons and for their remote update needs.
I like to use SD 2.6.2 every Friday after work to backup my primary HD to a second HD (in my MacPro) on a scheduled basis. SD has options to Restart from my backup drive and to ShutDown. I simply want to Restart and let the Mac come back to the Login screen. So I used a simple AppleScript from the web (see below), put it inside the folder I have SD and set SD to execute this script "after copy completes" but get the following error: "| 05:41:03 PM | Error | sh: /Applications/Apps QB/SuperDuper!/restart.scpt: Permission denied" Here is the script: tell application "Finder" restart end tell ------------------- 1 - it would be nice to have a basic "Restart" option 2 - but what might I be doing wrong with this script? Apple AppleScripts and Shell scripts not the same perhaps? thanks much! qb |
That's an AppleScript, not a shell script: you can't just run an AppleScript like that.
The "Shut Down" option in SuperDuper! won't work for you? |
NOT Shutdown
I don't want to Shutdown - work requires we leave our Mac ON but at the login screen so they can do nightly backups and push updates when needed.
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I see. Well, you can use something like
#!/bin/sh nohup /bin/bash -c "sleep 20; osascript /path/to/scpt" & as your shell script, substituting appropriately. This has to be saved to a plain text file with execute (+x) privileges. |
Thanks
Between your shell script and a shell tutorial from the web I believe this will solve my needs. If not, "I'll be back." :-)
thanks qb |
No Restart... so I'm Baaack...
So I created the file "restart.sh" with the following contents and put it inside my SD folder:
#!/bin/sh nohup /bin/bash -c "sleep 20; osascript /Applications/Apps QB/SuperDuper!/restart.scpt" & ------- I used chmod as described here to modify "restart.sh": chmod +x (and drag from finder the script 'remove_cache.sh') --------- as a reminder "restart.scpt" has the following (and if I "run" this script the computer does restart): tell application "Finder" restart end tell ------- SD does execute "restart.sh" without any error my MacPro does not restart. Seems to cause the cpus to get utilized for a minute but nothing else. Does anything need to be "complied"? Sorry for my programming innocence (ignorance!) qb |
The space in the path of the osascript isn't going to work. You'll need to escape that (and probably the exclamation point, too).
Why not temporarily just put it in /Applications to see if you can get it to work, and change the path to just /Applications/restart.scpt |
Success!
You are correct about the space in the path. Once i moved the scrips into /Applications and changed SD to find the .sh all worked find.
Many many thanks! qb |
Glad to help.
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