[ubuntu-in] ubuntu lullaby timer

[Sriranga(77yrsold)]

How to wakeup automatically at 9.00?


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Linux Lingam <linuxlingam at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> dear all,
>>
>> i'd love to drift to sleep listening to some audio or music playing via
>> mplayer on my ubuntu 9.04,
>> but obviously, once asleep, don't want to get up to quit mplayer and
>> shutdown the laptop.
>> likewise, i'd also love to wake up to mplayer after the laptop autoboots
>> into ubuntu.
>>
>> any way of doing this automagically?
>>
>> the first may be easy, but the second a tad difficult
>> as my laptop uses rEFIT on the macbookpro.
>>
>> tried googling, but came across too many outofcontext pages.
>>
>> how about a simple cli command as below
> $ sudo shutdown 8:00
> [sudo] password for user:
>
> Broadcast message from user at klpt
>     (/dev/pts/0) at 7:36 ...
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> The system is going down for maintenance in 24 minutes!
>
> **
> so the command basically is
> sudo shutdown "at whatever time"
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> and the machine will shutdown any open programmes and the computer
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> ram
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