On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:26:40AM +0530, Rony wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's cron.
Simply adding 'mpg123song.mp3' to my user's cron works even when I am
not logged in.
Great.
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
On Saturday 25 September 2010 11:50 AM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
Sorry for creating confusion. Next time, will bear in mind to test
properly. Also updated my blog post [0] accordingly.
Its amazing how much you discover when you do the stuff yourself instead
of just following 'how-tos' from the
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's cron.
Simply adding 'mpg123song.mp3' to my user's cron works even when I am
not logged in.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:26:40AM +0530, Rony wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's cron.
Simply adding 'mpg123song.mp3' to my user's cron works even when I am
not logged in.
Great. I tried it
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:01:09PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:45:44PM +0530, steve wrote:
The only drawback that I see with this is that mpg123 does not play my
.ogg files.
How about ogg123 ? You might then want to script using the right player
for depending
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:12 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote:
On Friday 24 September 2010 7:26:40 am Rony wrote:
Great. I tried it again in user but I still need to be logged in to at
least one session, console or gui. The funny part is that if I log out,
the song stops there and continues
On Friday 24 September 2010 11:59 AM, Rajeev R. K. wrote:
I think the culprit here is the permissions system. Usually, Systems like
PackageKit assign permissions to various devices to allow normal user access
without having to manually add users to various groups. If you remember the
good old
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?
when i used pulseaudio(ubuntu) it used to do stuff like say your listening to
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:42:01PM +0530, Rony wrote:
I downloaded 'mpg123' from apt and created an executable script to run
'mpg123 song.mp3' and the script worked fine. Then I added it to the
user cron job but it did not play without login. However the same script
plays the song with the
Hi,
On 09/23/2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:42:01PM +0530, Rony wrote:
I downloaded 'mpg123' from apt and created an executable script to run
'mpg123 song.mp3' and the script worked fine. Then I added it to the
user cron job but it did not play without
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:45:44PM +0530, steve wrote:
The only drawback that I see with this is that mpg123 does not play my
.ogg files.
How about ogg123 ? You might then want to script using the right player
for depending on the file type.
Thanks for the tip
Thanks all of you!
On Thursday 23 September 2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's cron.
Simply adding 'mpg123song.mp3' to my user's cron works even when I am
not logged in.
Great. I tried it again in user but I still need to be logged in to at
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:45 PM, steve st...@lonetwin.net wrote:
On 09/23/2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
The only drawback that I see with this is that mpg123 does not play my
.ogg files.
How about ogg123 ? You might then want to script using the right player for
depending on the file
On Friday 24 September 2010 7:26:40 am Rony wrote:
Great. I tried it again in user but I still need to be logged in to at
least one session, console or gui. The funny part is that if I log out,
the song stops there and continues after I log in again.
i think this is probably because of pulse
On Friday 24 September 2010 07:26:40 Rony wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's
cron. Simply adding 'mpg123song.mp3' to my user's cron works
even when I am not logged in.
sox options to generate
2010/9/21 Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.net:
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.
normally, cron would mail you the output of the run. check that user's mail.
Anurag
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:07:22AM +0530, steve wrote:
Look only if you /want/ step-by-step instructions, if you want to
discover the way to achieve it by trial-n-error don't click:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+cron+music+alarm
I am in no mood for clicking. :D
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Regards,
Nitesh
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 12:20 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:07:22AM +0530, steve wrote:
Look only if you /want/ step-by-step instructions, if you want to
discover the way to achieve it by trial-n-error don't click:
On Monday 20 September 2010 11:49 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
I am doing this little experiment in cron, but not able to make it work.
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add the
usual time parameters and add the following to the command field:
/usr/bin/ffplaypath to
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 12:35 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote:
stupid, easy, security issue, solution
run it as root?
Hi. Please trim your message. For a one line reply, an entire A4 page
sized text was used up.
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As a proper list etiquette...
Please trim your replies.
Post your replies
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:36:50AM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
But there is one more thing. Cron executes the 'fetchmail' command listed
in my crontab list irrespective of whether I am logged in or not. But it
fetchmail does not need access to any special devices like
audio/video
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:35:57AM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote:
But there is one more thing. Cron executes the 'fetchmail' command listed
in my crontab list irrespective of whether I am logged in or not. But it
executes the vlc command only if I am logged in.
Is there any way I can make
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
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 10:53 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
stupid, easy, security issue, solution
run it as root?
Either that or setup auto log-in - which is the better of the two
devils?
How about running the script as root but inside the script, do a 'su
-user'. Root will
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57:11PM +0530, Rony wrote:
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
On 09/21/2010 10:49 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:36:50AM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
[...snip...]
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
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Nitesh Mistry
mail...@mistrynitesh.net wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57:11PM +0530, Rony wrote:
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
I am doing this little experiment in cron, but not able to make it work.
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add the
usual time parameters and add the following to the command field:
/usr/bin/ffplay path to my mp3 file
But cron mails me an error which I have attached
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:49:48PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
I am doing this little experiment in cron, but not able to make it work.
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add the
usual time parameters and add the following to the command field:
/usr/bin/ffplay
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 12:16:03 am Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:49:48PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
I am doing this little experiment in cron, but not able to make it work.
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add the
usual time
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:49:48PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
I am doing this little experiment in cron, but not able to make it work.
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add the
usual time parameters and add the following to the command field:
/usr/bin/ffplay
On Monday 20 Sep 2010, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
I want cron to play a certain mp3 file at a certain time. So I add
the usual time parameters and add the following to the command
field: /usr/bin/ffplay path to my mp3 file
But cron mails me an error which I have attached as text file.
ffplay
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