Norbert Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > does vdr (especially version 1.4.7 as I am using this right now) tell > the shutdownscript in any way what caused the shutdown-request (pressing > the poweroff button on fb or the idle timer)? > [..] > > For this it would be nice to have > a) a direct vdr feature (like no idletimer from x to y (and maybe more > than one range)) or > b) a way to distinguish between manual shutdown and idletimer shutdown > in the shutdownscript. simply write an intelligent shutdownscript. mine does: (only snippets) if [ "`ps aux | grep noad | grep -v 'grep noad'`" != "" ]; then logger -t vdr "not shutting down, noad is running" if [ "`smbstatus -p | grep -c 192.168.42`" != "0" ]; then logger -t vdr "not shutting down, samba-users are connected" exit 1 fi if [ "`w -hs | wc -l`" != "0" ]; then logger -t vdr "not shutting down, users are connected" exit 1 fi simply do a timecheck. if its ok to shutdown, do it with an wakeuptime of $5 or if its a manual shutdown without timer, with a wakeuptime of `date -d "tomorrow 8am" +"%s"` you can script vdr very well, imho. regards, Friedhem. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr