Prevent sleep during ssh session

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 14:38 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:

> I'm connecting to a remote Jaunty machine via ssh.  Problem is the
> machine goes to sleep after a while.  Is there a way to prevent or
> disable this from the command line while I've got an ssh session
> open?

If you are the owner of that box, you can easily configure it not to
go asleep  System -> Preferences -> Power Management.
If you are not the owner you have to live with his likings but you
may ask to disable sleeping.

> The machine is running Gnome.

HTH
  Siggy
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