<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Linux Lingam <<a href="mailto:linuxlingam@gmail.com">linuxlingam@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div>how about a simple cli command as below $ sudo shutdown 8:00 [sudo] password for user: Broadcast message from user@klpt (/dev/pts/0) at 7:36 ... The system is going down for maintenance in 24 minutes! ** so the command basically is sudo shutdown "at whatever time" and the machine will shutdown any open programmes and the computer ram </div></div>