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# 8  
Old 08-06-2012
No. Your crontab entry would be something like:

Code:
15 06 * * *  /home/username/bin/my_alarm.bash >/tmp/alarm.log 2>&1

The script is started by cron at 6:15 each morning.

Hope that's a bit more clear.
# 9  
Old 08-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by agama
No. Your crontab entry would be something like:

Code:
15 06 * * *  /home/username/bin/my_alarm.bash >/tmp/alarm.log 2>&1

The script is started by cron at 6:15 each morning.

Hope that's a bit more clear.
Sorry. It's not working. I have made a file, say "cronfile",
which contains the above line.

Then if I execute

crontab cronfile

I don't get any result !
# 10  
Old 08-06-2012
Are there any messages in the log file: /tmp/alarm.log

What happens if you run your script from the command line?
# 11  
Old 08-07-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by agama
Are there any messages in the log file: /tmp/alarm.log

What happens if you run your script from the command line?
Code:
cat /tmp/alarm.log

gives
Code:
/bin/sh: 1: alarm.bash: not found

But I don't see anything to happen from the command line.

Let me state once again what I have done.

I have created a bash file called alarm.bash .

Code:
cat alarm.bash

gives

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
PLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer
SONG=/usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg


for (( i = 0; i < 5; i++ ))
do
   /usr/bin/amixer sset Master 10%+ >/dev/null 2>&1
   $PLAYER -really-quiet -vo null $SONG >/dev/null 2>&1
done

And created a file called cronscript.
Code:
cat cronscript

yields
Code:
15 06 * * *  alarm.bash > /tmp/alarm.log 2>&1

Now


Anything I'm missing?
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