Re: Audio with CRON works - not AT?

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Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> When I put:
> 
> 40 21 * * * root /usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa 
> /home/phil/audio/vincent_van_gogh.mp3
> 
> in /etc/crontab - it works but if use "at" for any time and enter:
> 
> /usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa /home/phil/audio/vincent_van_gogh.mp3
> 
> - at the designated time I hear a click as though something happens but 
> no audio clip.
> 
> Anyone know why "at" doesn't behave?

The environment is not the same, that's likely to be related. But I use 'at' for 
an alarm clock, so if I get busy my system plays a nice reminder to get me 
moving, and that works just fine.

So it's peculiar to your system, or environment. And if you use alsa without 
pulse you are definitely exploring some lightly checked interactions.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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