New subject: [SLE] Help with crontab (NOT SOLVED TO ME)

20 Sep 2003

      I put this line into my crontab:
29 21 * * * xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u

Although, the command line:
xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u
...can play a list of mp3 very fine when executed by a Gnome terminal, it is not
working with Cron. Take a look at the result from the command CRONTAB -L:
$crontab -l
#vi crontab
29 21 * * * xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u
:wq!#You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/adagilson

This is the MESSAGE SENT BY CRON:
Message 15:
...
From adagilson@linux.local Fri  Sep 19 21:29:01  2003
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:29:00 -0300
From: root@linux.local (Cron Daemon)
To: adagilson@linux.local
Subject: Cron  xmms -p /home/adagilson/acordar.m3u
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
/bin/sh: xmms: command not found

Thanks for any help
a.

John Pettigrew escreveu:
...
In a previous message, Evan Morris wrote:
30 14 * * *   root /usr/bin/perl /home/default/scriptname.pl some_argument
[snip]
Basically, I want to know how to tell the system to run a specific perl
script at a certain time, and to accept a command line argument.
The first thing is to ensure that you have the command format correct - that
is, if you type it into a console, does it do what you want? Once you have
that format, just transfer the command into your crontab. The time/date and
user fields are correct in the example you gave AFAIK.
If you want easier control of cron jobs, try webmin - it has a module for
crons that makes it easier to manage. I discovered this tool recently and
it's fantastic, with modules for configuring loads of different aspects of
your system.>>
HTH

John

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