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Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion

From Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion
Date 2012-08-15 23:37 -0400
Organization Ain’t No Organization Here!
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On 08-15-2012 21:35, David Empson wrote:
> Even if your utility was the "open" command and you used it to launch an
> application, caffeinate would only keep the system awake while the
> application was being launched. "open" causes the application to be
> launched as an independent process by launchd, after which it runs
> independently of Terminal, the shell and caffeinate.

Although 'open' does have a command line switch that says "Don't return 
to shell until the app quits"

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Wes Groleau

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    firm and unalterable experience has established these laws,
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    is as entire as could possibly be imagined.”
                                 — David Hume, age 37
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caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 20:49 +0100
  Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-15 20:53 +0000
    Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 22:57 +0100
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-15 19:38 -0400
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-08-15 20:01 -0400
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 13:35 +1200
        Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-08-15 22:05 -0400
        Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-15 23:37 -0400
          Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 16:02 +1200
            Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-16 10:26 +0100
              Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-16 15:45 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-16 19:09 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-16 20:32 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 07:29 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-17 13:23 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 22:52 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:26 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 22:36 +0000
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:48 +0100
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-18 06:24 +0000
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-17 20:42 -0400
                Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2012-08-17 11:12 +0200
      Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 03:41 +0000

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