Thx. I will prepare some more complicated "creatures" :-)
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Joachim Schipper
<joac...@joachimschipper.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:26:28PM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I set sensorsd and sensorsd.conf this way :
>>
>> # $OpenBSD: sensorsd.conf,v 1.8 2007/08/14 19:02:02 cnst Exp $
>
>> # Monitor laptop battery for remaining capacity
>> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour3:low=1.40Wh:command=/etc/sensorsd/switchoff
>
>> Command is simple :
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> shutdown -h now "Shutdown caused by sensor"
>>
>> It's running from point of view that computer is turned off in case of
>> low battery or high battery on some of sensor which has command
>> assigned. Problem starts if your battery is empy and computer turned
>> off. So you plug AC and start laptop. If you are below limit for
>> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour3 then your laptop is turned off after
>> login again. It's quite understandable, but if you're above limit
>> behavior is still same. Is it problem this part from man page for
>> sensorsd.conf?
>>
>> B If the limits are crossed or if the status provided by the driver
>> B B B changes, sensorsd(8)'s alert functionality is triggered and a
command, if
>> B B B specified, is executed.
>>
>> Battery status trough this sensor is changing because battery was
>> empty and now laptop is in AC and charging. Does it really mean that
>> it will turn off my computer after every change of battery status
>> untill my battery is fully recharged?
>
> Yes. Write a better script to fix this. Some ideas: if the CPU gets hot,
> switch to low speed (apm -L) instead of turning the machine off; if the
> battery is low, check if you're connected to wall power before turning
> off; etc.
>
> B B B B B B B B Joachim
