I have a weird problem where my laptop will wake when it's closed, generating a lot of heat and causing much frustration.Is there a way that I can tell if the laptop's lid is closed so that I can automatically suspend the computer (via a cron script) if it wakes itself while the lid is closed? Closing the lid does currently suspend the machine and opening it does wake it, so that works properly. It's a 2011 MacBook Pro running Ubuntu 12.04.
Determine status of laptop lid
power management;laptop
For my specific case, I can get the status of the lid with $ cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/statestate:    openI can then just grep for open or closed to see if it's open or closed. 