Ubuntu – Automatically close application after custom time

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Is there a way to automatically close a certain application after custom time?

Update: i.e. stop the Audioplayer after a certain time.

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Install gnome-schedule from the Ubuntu Software Center, load the program from Applications > System Tools. Use it to add an entry for the time you want the program to be closed like so:

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This will kill all instances of firefox at a certain date/time, you can also have reoccurring events that kill off certain programs at certain times, for instance to encourage kids to not browse the internet or for killing certain games.

It is possible to do this kind of thing from the commandline too, but you need to know how to use crontab -l and how to write cron lines.

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Open a terminal window and type in:

sudo shutdown -h +60

and just replace 60 with whatever number of minutes you want to take.

More info here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-473173.html http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l5/lesson5a.html

Unison – Automatically Sync Computers with Unison

My suggestion would be to solve the problem of the dynamic IP (most routers have the concept of address reservation, that you can use to "fix" the IP of your computer). After that, you can use the command line version of unison:

unison -auto -batch profilename

and you can add it to your login/logout scripts or as a cron job.

If you still need to change the ip, you can use sed in a script:

create a template file in ~/.unison, newprof.tmpl, like this:

root = /home/romano/
root = ssh://romano@MYIPHERE//home/romano/

path = education
path = research

create the following script, call it sync_newprof:
```
#!/bin/bash
# 
cd $HOME/.unison
cat newprof.tmpl | sed s/MYIPHERE/$1 >! newprof.prf
unison -auto -batch profilename
```
basically, we create a profile file changing the MYIPHERE word with the script first argument
now you can call it as
```
sync_newprof 1.1.1.1 
```
and it will create the profile with the given IP and sync.

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