Keep bluetooth from sleeping

[andy baxter]

andy baxter wrote:
> tsai wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>  I am trying to make a bash script that does not let my k700i fall 
>> asleep, thus disconnecting the bluetooth connection.
>>  
>>  The script needs to be something like this:
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>  su
>>  password
>>  hidd --connect 00:12:EE:47:5A:92
>>  exit
>>  I don't know the correct syntax.  Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>> tsai
>>
>>     
> su doesn't allow you to specify a password on the command line 
> (deliberately I think, for security reasons)
>
> The right way to do this is to write a short script like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> hidd --connect 00:12:EE:47:5A:92
> exit
>
>
> then save it somewhere (/usr/local/bin is usual) and make a symbolic 
> link to it from one of the following directories in /etc/:
>
> cron.daily
> cron.hourly
> cron.monthly
> cron.weekly
>
> depending on how often you want it to run.
>
> If this isn't often enough (maybe not), do some research on 'cron' and 
> 'crontabs' and you should be able to figure it out. cron is a periodic 
> command scheduler which runs commands at specified intervals, as root 
> unless you tell it not to.
>
>   
P.S. I may have misunderstood what you were looking for. I was assuming 
you wanted a way of periodically running 'hidd' as root, in which case 
what I have written should work. If not, then sorry.