Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
jack craig wrote: > > On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >>> Any ideas much appreciated? >>> Looks like you have the authorization for

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread jack craig
On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> >>> Any ideas much appreciated? >>> >> Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> Any  ideas much appreciated? > > Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out; > there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play > sou

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread jack craig
On 07/26/2010 12:59 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want*

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Any ideas much appreciated? Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out; there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play sound for a user who is not currently logged in. I don't know en

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-26 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music >> playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any >> ideas? > > /etc/security/console.pe

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-25 Thread Rick Sewill
On 07/24/2010 02:55 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Hi, > > Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. > But it only plays it if I'm logged in. > How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or > nobody is logged in? > > To debug I tried su - to another

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Jul2010 12:55, Robert Arkiletian wrote: | Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. | But it only plays it if I'm logged in. | How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or | nobody is logged in? Can you show us exactly what command you used?

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread g
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Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music > playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any > ideas? /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask

Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Hi, Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. But it only plays it if I'm logged in. How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or nobody is logged in? To debug I tried su - to another user and play the file. I got error ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(puls