[mythtv-users] shutting down

[victor rajewski]

On 10/20/07, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> your ACPI daemon catches the buttons and runs the commands you want.
>
> You can do it this way:
>
> mythshutdown -s 1 -v all | grep 'status returned: 0' >/dev/null
>
> if [ $? == 0 ]; then
>     shutdown -h now
> fi

Looking back at this, it seems a cleaner way to do this would be:

if [ mythshutdown -s ]; then
   shutdown -h now
fi

since mythshutdown -s returns 0 if it's idle, which equates to true in bash.

But then I'm just an efficiency geek.

vik