Robert Cahn wrote: > I have about 3 days of music on my system. At the end of the day it's > nice to drift off to Rhythmbox in shuffle mode randomly picking out > tracks. What I want is sleep mode like on a clock radio or TV. The > music player should play 60 minutes and turn off. I suppose that > somehow I can schedule a task to kill it 60 minutes from now if I know > the PID. Can anyone walk me through this since I've never used the task > scheduler? > You could always run something like: echo rhythmbox --pause | at now + 60 minutes or echo killall rhythmbox | at now + 60 minutes You have to have permission to use at, just like you have to have permission to run cron jobs. 'man at' for more... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
