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 +====== Battery state script ======
 +The idea with this script is to check whether a server running on a laptop has lost its power source and needs to shutdown nicely.
  
 +===== Prerequisite =====
 +I use the utility called "acpi" to easily draw out the required values. You could also get them directly from /proc but I'm lazy :-)
 +Install acpi with this command:
 +<code>
 +sudo apt-get install acpi
 +</code>
 +
 +===== The script =====
 +The script is very simple and I've put some comments into it to clarify what I'm doing.
 + 
 +<file>
 +#!/bin/bash
 +
 +# Check if we're running on battery - the output will contain the word "Discharging" if we are 
 +# and generate one line thus putting the value "1" into the variable $state 
 +state=`acpi -b|grep Discharging| wc -l`
 +
 +# Next we retract the percentage value of remaining power
 +procent=`acpi -b|awk -F ", " '{print $2}'|sed -e 's/\%//g'`
 +
 +# If the power value is below 10% of battery capacity and we're running without power
 +# we shutdown the server
 +if [ $procent -lt 10 -a $state -eq 1 ]
 +then
 +        logger "Critical Low Power level - Shutting Down!"
 +        sleep 2
 +        halt
 +fi
 +</file>
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