[thelist] Task scheduling in linux CRON - solved

Phil Turmel pturmel-webdev at turmel.org
Sat Apr 18 10:38:03 CDT 2009


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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