In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Garaffa) wrote:
> Instead of doing this, I'd like to have cron run a perl script which
> looks up iTunes' pid and then kills that pid. Here's a rough sketch of
> what I have so far:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> $pid_num = `top | grep iTunes`;
if you want to shell out to do this, `ps` with the right flags
is easier. however, look around to see if iTunes creates a file
with it's current PID. i'd look for you but i don't want to reboot
into OS X ;)
if that doesn't work, you might consider a wrapper to launch iTunes
that also captures its PID and creates such a file. i imagine that
you have something somewhere that restarts iTunes at the appropriate
time as well. :)
> $pid_num =~ s/[\d.]+/;
> open(CRONTAB, ">/var/cron/tabs/root");
there is no need to edit the crontab. simply put this perl
script in the contab, and kill the iTunes process with Perl's
kill().
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