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BruceJohnJennerLawso

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Registered: 2014-02-23

Posts: 50

Trying to create a shutdown script

So I am trying to create a script that runs whenever crunchbang is shutdown (via either the super-x gui interface, or just typing sudo poweroff into the terminal)

I followed the instructions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185261

added the script to /etc/init.d, created the symlink to the script in rc0.d and rc6.d, but nothing happens (specifically, its supposed to write uptime to a text file)

I tried renaming the link to K01shutdown.sh in case the command couldnt be executed later on in the shutdown process or something, but still nothing happens.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Last edited by BruceJohnJennerLawso (2014-08-11 20:55:05)

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 4,442

Re: Trying to create a shutdown script

You can probably modify the way I do it for a shutdown sound, by adding a command to /usr/bin/cb-exit.

      def shutdown_action(self,btn):
                self.disable_buttons()
                self.status.set_label("Shutting down, please standby...")

Add ->          os.system("command-or-script-you-want--to-run")

                os.system("dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=\"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit\" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop")

Last edited by damo (2014-08-11 21:09:47)

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BruceJohnJennerLawso

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Registered: 2014-02-23

Posts: 50

Re: Trying to create a shutdown script

You can probably modify the way I do it for a shutdown sound, by adding a command to /usr/bin/cb-exit.

      def shutdown_action(self,btn):
                self.disable_buttons()
                self.status.set_label("Shutting down, please standby...")

Add ->          os.system("command-or-script-you-want--to-run")

                os.system("dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=\"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit\" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop")

Thanks Damo, that worked (although I discovered that naming a script shutdown was bad, since there seems to be another program with that name)

I still dont understand why the previous method did not work though

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Trying to create a shutdown script

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/03/lsbinit-script/

The stuff of nightmares. 

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

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Re: Trying to create a shutdown script

Thanks Damo, that worked (although I discovered that naming a script shutdown was bad, since there seems to be another program with that name)

Always handy to check a script name with:

$ which shutdown
/sbin/shutdown

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