Re: [opensuse] Trying to play sound from inside a cron job

El 12/03/11 01:29, Carlos E. R. escribió:

I have this test line in my user crontab:

* * * * * /usr/bin/play /tmp/time.wav

a) Do you want to get owned ? :-D b) did you mean "aplay" ?

But I get this failure message (via mail) and no sound:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave /usr/bin/play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: Device or resource busy

Needless to say, that same command line on the CLI works just fine.

strace the process if possible, to see wth goes wrong, most likely the lack of some enviroment variable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org