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 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.
I also tried "/bin/bash /usr/bin/ffplay <path to my mp3 file>" but it does not work.
Where am I going wrong?
When I simply give the following command from terminal, it plays the file: ffplay <mp3 file>
FFplay version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6.2 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0 libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0 libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0 libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0 libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 built on Apr 23 2010 15:08:34, gcc: 4.3.3
=======================| DirectFB 1.0.1 |======================= (c) 2001-2007 The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org) (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-11-12 15:27) (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
--> No such file or directory(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device! (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable. (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
--> Initialization error!Could not initialize SDL - DirectFBCreate: Initialization error!
This seems to a problem with ffplay. It worked fine with cvlc. Sorry to bother all you people.
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 cron play the song (either with vlc or any other program) even without me being logged in?
<stupid, easy, security issue, solution> run it as root?