Auto shutdown

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Tue May 11 15:19:56 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 11 May 2004 3:58 pm, Adriano Holanda wrote:
> I want to auto shutdown the computer after
> a period with keyboard or mouse inactivity, i.e.,
> if the user doesn't use the computer in 1 hour,
> for example, a shutdown command is sent to the system.
>
> I need something like apmsleep, but instead suspend or
> standby the system, shutdown is executed.
>
> thanks;
>
> Adriano.
>
I Adriano.

I'm asuming you're talking about some form of X setup,GNOME or KDE

If so, simply write a program to suexec a shutdown and configure that as the 
screen-saver set to the appropriate interval.

Don't know what's involved but should be fairly simple.

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