I've been using Linux for largely desktop use for a long time, but have not gotten too into automation. I've finally gotten back around to trying to schedule cron to run vlc, to record a radio stream nightly at midnight (local). I got a command I think is good, and it appears cron is kicking it off. But it isn't producing the expected output file.
crontab -e as my usual user. 0 0 * * * timeout 4h cvlc -I dummy https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc2149/hls.m3u8 :no-video :sout="#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=/home/paul/Audio/Coast-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S').mp3" In /var/log/syslog.1 I see it kicked off. "No MTA installed, discarding output". (Fine for normal use, but the command seems to have failed.) Then nothing. Any suggestion on next debugging steps, or know what I'm doing wrong? Paul -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS1Cn7ic_9K0R44SGSNv-USZgOoKrF92TknsCGFg0w6OpA%40mail.gmail.com.
