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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software?
Date: 10 Mar 2017 22:22:18 GMT
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On 2017-03-10, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> I will note however that I have had file sharing turned on all the time
> for several years, and it is not preventing sleep for me (except while
> something is connected to it).

Same thing here on many different machines.

> It occurs to me that some of the "sleep prevented by <something>"
> messages might be due to temporary sleep preventions, e.g. while some
> software is doing an extended task that it wants to run to completion.

Yep. They do come and go.

> If you do see something is preventing sleep, it might be useful to
> repeat the command periodically to see if it goes away all by itself.

You could put it in a for loop then sit back and watch it for a while. I
think I recall Lewis posting shell code like that recently.

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