Re: [ACPI-sppt] Problems with Event-catching in acpid

Sebastian Henschel <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:03:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

hi swen..

Received at 2003-06-11 / 09:04 by Swen:
> 
> I had a problem with the acpid-tool. It doesn't work, so i want! in 
> /var/log/acpid the events where shown correctly. I had create a file 
> /etc/acpi/events/power wich contents
> 
> event=button/power.*
> action=/etc/acpi/scripte/power.sh

i remember there was an alternative in the regexp like
event=button[/ ]power.*
in my power-event, but this could be wrong.

anyway, i now use only the default event which catches all:

event=.*
action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e


the event parsing is done in that script, check the attached default.sh

hth,
 sebastian
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default.sh (application/x-sh, 804 B)

#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

set $*

# Take care about the way events are reported
ev_type=`echo "$1" | cut -d/ -f1`
if [ "$ev_type" = "$1" ]; then
	event="$2";
else
	event=`echo "$1" | cut -d/ -f2`
fi


case "$ev_type" in
    button)
        case "$event" in
          power)
#                logger "acpid powerbtn called: $*"
                /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh $*
                ;;
          *)
                logger "acpid default: event $event is not defined"
                ;;
        esac
    ;;

    battery)
        case "$event" in
          *)
                logger "acpid default: event $event is not defined"
                ;;
        esac
    ;;

    *)
        logger "acpid default: ACPI group $1 / event $2 is not defined"
        ;;
esac

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