noidle

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 03:00, Drechsel Wolf wrote:

> frequently I noticed that my iMac G5 will go to sleep during a time extensive build (gcc45 at the moment).
> 
> I googled and found some other people with that problem - and an easy solution:
> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> pmset noidle &
>> ... do the work here ...
>> kill %pmset
> Wouldnt it be smart to put the noidle command at the very beginning of any build script - and the kill %pmset at the very ending.
> I'd like the iMac to do the building - and then go to sleep after it's finished.

You could file an enhancement request in the issue tracker.