Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
jack craig wrote: On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Any ideas much appreciated? Looks like you have the authorization for

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Any  ideas much appreciated? Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out; there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread jack craig
On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Any ideas much appreciated? Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any ideas?

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Any ideas much appreciated? Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out; there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play sound for a user who is not currently logged in. I don't know

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread jack craig
On 07/26/2010 12:59 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music playing when you switch users. But

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-25 Thread Rick Sewill
On 07/24/2010 02:55 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Hi, Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. But it only plays it if I'm logged in. How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or nobody is logged in? To debug I tried su - to another user

Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Hi, Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. But it only plays it if I'm logged in. How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or nobody is logged in? To debug I tried su - to another user and play the file. I got error ALSA lib

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any ideas? /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread g
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Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Jul2010 12:55, Robert Arkiletian rob...@gmail.com wrote: | Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. | But it only plays it if I'm logged in. | How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or | nobody is logged in? Can you show us exactly what