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Old 07-18-2003, 01:39 AM   #1
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Auto Shut Down


Hi everyone,

Is there any way to shut down my desktop automatically? What I want is after certain time period, say 2 hrs, with no mouse movement and keystroke detected (similar to activate screensaver), the desktop shutdown by itself. Is there any built-in functions, scripts, or commands that I can use?

Thanks in advance

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Old 07-19-2003, 08:18 AM   #2
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Hi

By 'shutting down the desktop' you mean logout without
powering down your box i guess ?
If i recall, you can use xlock to do this;
man xlock
It has logout or autologout functions, just play around
with some of the options.

good luck
 
Old 07-19-2003, 09:25 AM   #3
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Hi!!!

I don't know if this is of any help, but you could use the shutdown command with a delay time as well. E.g:

shutdown -t <time in seconds to shutdown>

or

shutdown -time <when to shutdown your computer>

To see how to use all the functions of the shutdown command, type

man shutdown

It will bring a cool list with options and details about each possible command

Good Luck
 
Old 07-19-2003, 11:10 AM   #4
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Thank you for your reply. But I need more help on this.

What I am really looking for is a command which will start another command/script (in my case, shutdown -h now) after certain period with NO mouse and keyboard inputs detected.

I used crontab to schedule the job. But it shutted down at a specific time (say 2:30am). But I want something similiar to Labtop Power Management (but mine is a desktop), instead of Standby and Suspend, I want shutdown.

Thanks
 
Old 07-19-2003, 02:21 PM   #5
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I found out from another post that command 'w' can help me to find the idle time. I am now working on the script to make it work. Thanks
 
Old 07-19-2003, 04:27 PM   #6
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Hi

Still you can make use of the xlock like this;

xlock -mode ant +usefirst -startCmd "sleep 100; shutdown -h now" &

make sure that the user actually can shutdown, or place that in the
/etc/sudoers
and place the xlock command in some init file or autostart folder

-mode ant ; one of the screensaver modes
-startCmd ; will be executed when xlock fires up and will be
killed if the user unlocks the desktop
commands should be within the " " part
+usefirst ; first key will not be the first password key
default; it is.
sleep 100 ; waits 100 seconds then shutdown

there are several options to catch mouse movements also

If you use KDE, do man xscreensaver and read the part for KDE
read the part for other windowmanagers in the xscreensaver
manual also

some other nice things -inroot or -inwindow just for foolin'
around


Regards
 
  


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