On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Bradley <pursley001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to hear some ideas on how to set the computer to shut-down due > to inactivity. The feature to sleep the computer for inactivity doesn't > work properly as my computer doesn't support a "sleep" feature. It can only > hibernate or shut down. Any thoughts? > > Bradley If you think this is a limitation of your software, then try with Fedora10 or something newer. However the following is just an idea: I wrote a bash script to do exactly this. Basically the script works like this: I have a set of applications. Once every minute I check if those applications are running by awking or grepping something out of ps or top or whatever. If none are running I increment a counter, and sleep for a minute. Once this counter reaches 15 (ie. 15min) I execute a shutdown. If any are running, then I reset the counter to 0, sleep for a min, and repeat. (If the cpu load is higher than a threshold or if certain lockfiles exist, I also reset the counter) I did this on a 5 yr old Redhat8 computer, so the basics apply to any linux. I launch the script as root out of rc.local. I'm pretty sure the hibernate can be called via a command using pm-utils in newer versions of Fedora. -Mauriat -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
