[thelist] Task scheduling in linux CRON - solved
Kipper Timmins
kipper_timmins at live.co.uk
Sat Apr 18 10:45:31 CDT 2009
oo thanks for the heads up :)
cheers
Kev
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:38:03 -0400
> From: pturmel-webdev at turmel.org
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Task scheduling in linux CRON - solved
>
> Kipper Timmins wrote:
> > I've gone through the man, and i have tried using the full path
> > crontab currently looks like
> >
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > DISPLAY=:0
> >
> > # m h dom mon dow command
> > 40 15 * * * /usr/bin/vlc
> > 40 14 * * * /usr/bin/firefox
> >
> > and for some reason this works
> > a friend told me i needed to output the display so yeah there we go, thanks though :)
> >
>
> A warning: this will fail if you aren't logged in. If you need your
> alarm clock to work regardless, you need a player that can handle a
> headless environment, such as 'aplay'.
>
> HTH,
>
> Phil
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