Shutdown Script

1

Is there a shutdown scipt for Haiku yet? Or,something equilivent?

2

http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bash-scripting.html#user-scripts

3

When I look in boot/home/config/boot/UserShutdownScript there isn’t one there. Is it as easy as using style edited and nameing the file ShutdownScript.sh? How do I enter a command to shut down a specific program?

Dave

4

It gives you the file name in the userguide: /boot/home/config/boot/UserShutdownScript
This is executed as a shell script. You can create/edit it with any editor you want.

If you want to send commands to a specific application you’ll want to use the ‘hey’ program

For example to quit an app named foo: hey foo QUIT

There are various documents floating around talking about using hey.

  • https://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/using_scripting_in_haiku
  • https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/darkwyrm/2011-03-16_lesson_18_application_scripting
  • http://wiki.bebits.com/page/HeY
  • http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/08-scripting/
5

The Shutdown Script does not seem to get executed on shutdown. I tried it and it does not seem to work (it didn’t work in A2 either).

Did anyone get it to work on A3?

Thanks,
hey68you

6

Yup. Guess it’s still on the todo list.

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4444

7

I can make the “hey BeDock quit” command work from a terminal window. But, alas the UshershutDown script isn’t running. Bummer.