Detect if Macbook is closed?

[gumpo03]

Hi.
Is there a way to detect if the macbook is getting closed while the program is running? Cause i have a script setting up an ssh connection and every time i close the macbook to get it with me, the ssh connection is shut down. Now I want the programm to reconnect automatically after open the mac.

Is this possible?

[DJ_Bazzie_Wazzie]

@gumpo03

Is this possible?

I would rather change your ssh settings than creating a script for it. You can setup ssh to reconnect after you’ve closed your macbook for a certain period of time.

This is what the ssh manual has to say about it:

@ssh_config(5)

ServerAliveCountMax
Sets the number of server alive messages (see below) which may be sent without ssh(1)
receiving any messages back from the server. If this threshold is reached while
server alive messages are being sent, ssh will disconnect from the server, terminating
the session. It is important to note that the use of server alive messages is very
different from TCPKeepAlive (below). The server alive messages are sent through the
encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive option
enabled by TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The server alive mechanism is valuable when the
client or server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.

         The default value is 3.  If, for example, ServerAliveInterval (see below) is set to 15
         and ServerAliveCountMax is left at the default, if the server becomes unresponsive,
         ssh will disconnect after approximately 45 seconds.  This option applies to protocol
         version 2 only.

 ServerAliveInterval
         Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the
         server, ssh(1) will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response
         from the server.  The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to
         the server.  This option applies to protocol version 2 only.

So when you close your macbook for max 4 hours you can put this in you ssh config file:
[format]ServerAliveInterval 10
ServerAliveCountMax 1440 [/format]

update: to answer the question of the title of this topic:

set plistData to do shell script "ioreg -r -a -k AppleClamshellState"
tell application "System Events"
	set plistItem to make new property list item with properties {text:plistData}
	set plistRecord to value of plistItem
end tell
return AppleClamshellState of item 1 of plistRecord