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wrs4
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Joined: 27 May 2003
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Location: Alexandria, VA
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 Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject: cron and mpg123 |
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I have mpg123 installed on my computer and have used it in 7.x versions of Red Hat for an alarm clock. The vcron entry looks like
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30 7 * * Mon-Fri /usr/bin/mpg123 -Z /mp3/Enya/*/*.mp3
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When I run it by hand, I get
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william@kenobi william $ /usr/bin/mpg123 -Z /mp3/Enya/*/*.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Directory: /mp3/Enya/Shepherd Moons/
Playing MPEG stream from No Holly for Miss Quinn.mp3 ...
Junk at the beginning 49443302
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
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and sound. From cron, nothing. What gives? |
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Brown Eyed Boy
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Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Location: England
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean that cron doesn't print the output to the screen or do you mean that you don't get any sound?
I'm no cron expert, but assuming you mean the latter, you might need to add cron to the "audio" group. |
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wrs4
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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selections from /etc/group:
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cron::16:cron,william
audio::18:cron,william
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permissions on /dev/dsp:
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william@kenobi william $ ls -l /dev/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jun 14 14:47 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
william@kenobi william $ ls -l /dev/sound/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 william audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp
william@kenobi william $ ps -efwww |grep cron
root 1094 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
william 28458 26508 0 20:10 pty/s2 00:00:00 grep cron
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The problem is no sound (I guess it would be nice to get emails from cron, but then I'd just have to delete them  ). |
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Terminal-Velocity
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Location: Greece
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:29 am Post subject: |
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I have the exact same problem with vcron! and of course all permissions, group settings etc seem to be ok. this is a killer for me, has anyone found a solution?
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Terminal-Velocity
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:24 am Post subject: |
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found the solution to this! some googling showed me that it's some kind of bug in mpg123, so i just used mplayer instead! this is my crontab, if anyone cares:
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