Inactivity Timed Shutdown in Shell

[Boss 429]

I have been digging around in the forums looking for a way to shut down Linux in shell after a period of inactivity. I found this thread from 2014: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17830.0.html. I used the code Rich provided, and it seems to almost work. When it is executed, it says that it doesn't find xset (probably because there is no "X" installed on this machine). I just need something I can point to that will consistently say the pc is inactive, or that there have been no keystrokes after a period of time, in shell.

Thank you

[Misalf]

xset  is provided by  Xlibs.tcz .
Including its deps it's 3.09 MB.

[curaga]

For a cli-only setup, try "w" from procps.tcz.

[Boss 429]

I have downloaded and installed Xlibs.tcz. when I try to run Xset -s it is giving me the error "xset: unable to open display "" "

I also tried downloading procps.tcz, and it is giving me an error saying file not found.

[Misalf]

Oops, sorry. Kinda makes sense that xset can't set properties of X when there is no X. :p

[Boss 429]

Is there a way it will work without X?

[Misalf]

I also tried downloading procps.tcz, and it is giving me an error saying file not found.

On tc-7.x x86  procps.tcz  contains  /usr/local/bin/w .

[Boss 429]

So, referring back to what Rich had provided for code in the other thread, how would I go about making it shut down after 5 hours? I'm not sure how I need to set up the code and what exactly it will need to look at in order for it to work properly.

[Boss 429]

I've looked into it a little more, I'm still not having a lot of luck getting it to work..

[Misalf]

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tce-load -i procps
watch w
You should see the  IDLE  value increasing.

[Misalf]

Maybe something like

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w -hs | awk '/tty1/ {print $3}'


[Boss 429]

when I try to run

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tce-load -I procps
I'm getting a not found error. Is there another package I need to have downloaded prior to trying to run that code?

[curaga]

You don't mention your version and arch. We assume the latest on x86, where procps is available.

[Boss 429]

My apologies, I'm running PiCore 9.0 on a couple (including the test machine), and Core 7.2 on the others. Would like to have it working on both if possible..

[curaga]

procps-ng seems to be available there, it has the same command.