People occasionally have a cron job emit some sound each hour. On my Debian 9
machine I hear Biff [1] barking. In /etc/crontab I have an entry to call a
script bark.sh which does the barking. Typically
0,1 0,12 * * * rprice full-path-to/bark.sh 12 2>>&1
where bark.sh is a Bash script which calls /usr/bin/play to play a .au file.
This ran for years with Debian 9. I upgrade to Debian 11 and hear nothing. The
usual advice is
(a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
(b) play the sound from a script.
But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list have sound
coming from a Debian 11 cron job? If so, how is it done?
Roger
[1] Unix folklore. There is a picture of Biff with title "Figure 14-3 Heidi
Stettner and Biff, circa 1980" on page 206 of Harley Hahn's "A Student's Guide
to Unix". McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1993, ISBN 0-07-025511-3.
