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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Daryl McDonald wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM,
Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div class="im">On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:10:48 -0400, you
wrote:<br>
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>If I understand correctly, logging off, instead of
powering off will allow<br>
>myth to power off the box and thereby enable
powering on for recordings<br>
>when set up properly.<br>
>But I've hit a brick wall before I get that far, I'm
following the how-to<br>
> for setting the alarm when clock is in RTC, I've
swapped the "&gt" command<br>
>for ">." and even prefaced with "sudo" and still
permission is denied. What<br>
>have I missed?<br>
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>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date
"2013-08-29 10:15:00" +%s`<br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ echo 0 >.;
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm<br>
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That should be:<br>
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echo 0 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm<br>
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>bash: .: Is a directory<br>
>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission
denied<br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo 0 >.;
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm<br>
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sudo echo 0 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm<br>
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>bash: .: Is a directory<br>
>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission
denied<br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
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>Daryl<br>
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As Chris Porter said, the &gt; on that web page is
html for a ><br>
character - it looks like the HTML editing software used
to create the<br>
page put it in automatically instead of the correct >
character in the<br>
examples, so wherever you see those characters in bash
scripts inside<br>
the boxes on that page, replace all 4 characters with one
single ><br>
character to get the correct syntax.</blockquote>
<div>I'm still getting permission denied:</div>
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<div> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date
"2013-08-29 10:50:00" +%s`</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ echo 0 >
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div>
<div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ echo $SECS >
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div>
<div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date "2013-08-29
10:50:00" +%s`</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo 0 >
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div>
<div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo $SECS >
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm</div>
<div>bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ </div>
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<div>what can I try now?</div>
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All these commands need root privileges. Either you use "sudo" in
front of each command or get a root shell with "sudo bash" and try
all commands there.<br>
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HTH<br>
Thomas<br>
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