Subject: Re: [LAU] Radio: Winfried Ritsch at ORF1

From: James Cameron <quozl@...> · Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 12:38 pm

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:44:53PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:

quoted text> How can I run my mplayer from cron?
Not sure I understand why you need to do it ... but ...
A program on Linux should work identically if the environment and

command line are the same.
The command line can be recovered using /proc/${PID}/cmdline, and the

environment from /proc/${PID}/environ .  The environ file is null

separated, so use the strings command rather than cat.
So to run something from cron that might otherwise be run from a shell

prompt ... means you might have to select certain environment variables

and define them before running the program.  Exactly which depends on

the program.
Oh, and of course, the program should have the same working directory.
--

James Cameron

http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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