sleeper and rebooter

[Florian Diesch]

"Oguz Yarimtepe" <comp.ogz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>
>> Could you explain what these programs are doing?
>>
>
> Sure. They are the programs that are used to reboot the computer or
> suspend the computer defined number of times automatically. So what
> they do is make the computer go to suspend mode then awake wait and
> repeat the process again. Also for the rebooter.

I don't know any program to do this on Linux. But here's a simple
shell script that may do the job.

Be careful, it's not well tested. Use at your own risk.


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/sh

## Directory to store our files
DATA_DIR=/you/need/to/change/this

## Logging goes here 
LOGFILE="$DATA_DIR/nrun.log"

## The counter is saved here
COUNTERFILE="$DATA_DIR/nrun.counter"

## Command to run
CMD=gnome-power-cmd.sh suspend


help(){
 echo "Usage:"
 echo "  $0 N"
 exit 1
 }

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
 help
fi

N="$1"

if [ -f "$COUNTERFILE" ]; then
 COUNT="$(cat "$COUNTERFILE")"
else
 COUNT=0
 echo >  "$LOGFILE"   # start new logfile
fi

COUNT="$((COUNT+1))"

if [ "$COUNT" -gt "$N" ]; then
 echo > "$COUNTERFILE"
 exit 0
fi

echo "$CMD: $COUNT of $N at $(date)" >> $LOGFILE

echo "$COUNT" >  "$COUNTERFILE"

$CMD
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Adapt the first few lines to your needs (gnome-power-cmd.sh requires
GNOME to be running, instead of suspend you may use shutdown,
hibernate or reboot) and call the script, e.g.
  /the/dir/you/saved/nrun 10
from /etc/rc.local or a user's session (in this case you should
configure gdm (or whatever display manager you are using) to login
that user automatically).



   Florian
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