Can't ensure sleep mode is working...

thank you for replying rysz!

yeah i saw that article, and i currently have it set to sleep it all. however in another article i found this:

https://www.macworld.com/article/1168151/find-out-whats-keeping-your-mac-awake.html

 pmset -g assertions  will bring up a list of pid's that are preventing my mac from sleeping. and then i found it was sharingd which led me to find this article...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8132014

so- i can;t really test it until someone is on site, but i will let you all know!

thanks again!

poo!

mmm.... kind of but maybe i wasn't being as specific. i was wondering why in sleep mode, i was able to still SSH in. i don't think the sshd daemon should be running while sleeping. i understand maintenance sweeps and stuff, but this isn't that. turns out i waited until the next morning and now it truly is sleeping. so i guess it does sleep in sleep mode, now i just gotta figger out when "sleep" goes into "deep sleep" thanks

thanks so much grant!

yeah i thinki got all that setup. i got another machine on the subnet (albeit a windows box) that is always on that is sending the magic packet over. this is is the overarching goal, but i was curious as to the different modes of sleep the macOS has before i got to that. since my original post is about the slumbering, i'll keep it to that- but will remember your advice on the WoL as i progress... thanks!

poo!

thanks! another thing to check when i can actually go back in and manually wake up the machine. since the remote WoL ins't working. i will update tomorrow. thank you!