[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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