On Tuesday 21 September 2010 10:49 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > > When I am not logged in, cron still executes the command (as I can see > from the syslog) but there is no output. And no message from cron for > this instance. > > Whereas, when I am logged in, the song is played but I also get a > message (attached) from the cron. > > >
See if this link helps. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/background-mplayer-from-console-207710/ -- As a proper list etiquette... Please trim your replies. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Do not re-use old messages to write new ones. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

