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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can I write a cron to do this? Post 302111319 by larryase on Tuesday 20th of March 2007 07:58:25 PM
Old 03-20-2007
kvk,


I think you can do this but it is not really the correct way to do this. Have your cron job change the mp3 file. In your PHP/Web coding just point to a default mp3 file name and location. Then just have you cron job change the file, but keeping the same name.

Example:

Web page ->

<body><p>This is a link to the music <embed src="http://www.mysite.com/webstation/song.wav" loop="true" autoplay="false" width="145" height="60"></embed> </p>


Cron script ->

#!/bin/sh
#
#

# Getting the hour of the day and use this as a variable
TIME_DAY=`date +%H`

# Force copy the song of the $TIME_DAY to the current song location.
cp - f /webfile/webstation/song${TIME_DAY}.mp3 /webfile/webstation/song.mp3



I hope this helps you. But the correct way would be to use html code or what every you are using to develop your HTML page
 

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cron-apt

CRON-APT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       CRON-APT(8)

NAME

       cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get

SYNOPSIS

       cron-apt [configfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.

       cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

		 --help
		 Show summary of options.

CONFIGURATION

       Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set	in
       /etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config

       From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get (1)

       aptitude (1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  This manual is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
       Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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