On Friday 24 September 2010 10:00 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2010 7:47:05 pm Rony wrote: > >> Yes. I think it is the permission thing that Rajeev has mentioned. >> > Probably .. but why would it continue? woudnt it just quit with an error msg > the first time? >
The user is part of the audio group and has permission to use sound. However the login is necessary. A simple solution would be to add some lines in the script to login into a shell and then play the music as user. > when i used pulseaudio(ubuntu) it used to do stuff like say your listening to > music, and you switch to another user (or a tty logged in as another user for > that matter) it would mute the output stream from the music player, and > continue when you switch back. > > What I noticed was that when I was playing a song on youtube and the cron job coincided with it and I was hearing 2 different songs playing together. My system Ubuntu 10.04. -- 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
