Prevent sleep during ssh session

[Bill Moseley]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de>wrote:

> 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.


I mean when I ssh in remotely (w/o running VNC or any kind of Remote
Desktop) I want to prevent it from going into sleep mode during the ssh
session.

I know I can change the power management options via the GUI.  I'm talking
about via an ssh session.



>
>
> > The machine is running Gnome.
>
> HTH
>  Siggy
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