Hi, --- On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: | I have been wanting to automatically switch off my machine after the | music stops playing. | | This simple shell script does a great job when run as root. | | #!/bin/sh | | while [ "1" = "1" ]; then | do | sleep 15 | echo "Checking for mplayer..." | stat=`pgrep mplayer` | if [ "$stat" = "" ]; then | shutdown -hP now | fi | done \--
Try the following in the <command> section of an /etc/crontab entry? pgrep mplayer || shutdown -hP now SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
