Also, the "No MTA installed, discarding output" is the result of not having a Mail Transport Agent installed/configured. Cron traditionally sends you email with the full blown output from jobs (failed or otherwise). That email is your preferred debugging technique. The email will be sent to the user who owns the crontab. The email system you install can be setup to only support mail on the localhost (no real support for sending/receiving internet email). Hope that (also) helps.
--- bhw On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:16 AM John R. Dennison <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:03:25AM -0600, Paul Boniol wrote: > > > > > crontab -e as my usual user. > > > > 0 0 * * * timeout 4h cvlc -I dummy > > https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc2149/hls.m3u8 :no-video > > > :sout="#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=/home/paul/Audio/Coast-$(date > > '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S').mp3" > > Any '%' in a crontab needs to be escaped as it has special meaning to > cron: > > "A "%" character in the command, unless escaped with a backslash (\), > will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % > will be sent to the command as standard input." > > (man 5 crontab) > > -- > Live every day like it's your last because someday you're going to be > right. > > -- Muhammad Ali > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/20201211081614.GF5777%40elros.gerdesas.com > . > -- "Humanity will not be free until the last stone of the last church falls on the head of last priest" -- The Emperor of Mankind, Warhammer 40,000 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAO-TQAhkan-iEWv33TVWMCxG43F1MJoHMSmcK1R4Yfr_3D5j8A%40mail.gmail.com.
