Hello
I am a beginner with linux and KDE as well.
My goal:
Write a script used with kalarm so that when the qeue of vlc is empty the computer will automatically shutdown. Thanks that, once the few episode of how I met your mother I am watching come to an end, I won't need to get up from my bed and manually shutdown the machine
(Therefore i use the Time from now features of kalarm)

Currently i have written this script

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#!/bin/bash
skill vlc
shutdown -P now System is about to shutdown

But as you know better than I do you need to run shutdown with sudo.

Hence my question: What is the tip to get it work?
Is there a way to write a script where I write sudo shutdown then my root password (I mean any trick with echo or this or that, or anytrick that you know)
Shall I rather run kalarm with

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kdesudo kalarm

each time the computer begin ?
In this case how do I change it?
don't forget than I am a complete beginner

Any help is welcome

if you set the playlist option "play and exit" then the command vlc && shutdown -h now should work (found here http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_shut_down_computer) try google'ing http://www.google.com/search?client=ope ... 5&bih=1021

Hi
first thanks for your help

so I wrote a script ("bye") like this in kate

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#!/bin/bash
command vlc && shutdown -P +1

the thing is since here shutdown is not called with superuser mode it doesn't work (i.e error message here under)

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./bye: line 2:  2308 Segmentation fault      vlc

I can't lauch the whole "bye" script with sudo before since apparently vlc ist not allowed to be run as superuser

Is there really no way to get it with Kalarm?

Set up sudoers so that you can run shutdown without a password using the command

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sudo shutdown -P +1

see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132821 for explanation of sudo