Server :: My Cron Job Doesn't Work
Jun 1, 2010
I have a simple cron job that runs every night & I tested this manually by just running the command as root in bash and all worked fine. It took some time but the crob job finished and I got my results emailed to me perfect / as expected.
Here is root's cron job listing:
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Now I noticed that I never ever got anything emailed to me the following day so I am wondering if perhaps the Cron daemon doesn't have permissions or has an issue running / executing the command rather than when I test the command as 'root'? When I view my logs, I can see the command being executed and don't see any errors however I don't get email results when Cron runs the job rather than me taking the command and running it manually in Bash...then it works. What am I missing?
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Mar 2, 2010
I have a problem with mp3blaster.
I want cron to act as an alarm clock: first, it plays an mp3 file and then it runs the speech synthesizer festival which tells me to get up and do stuff.
Now, mp3blaster doesn't do anything when I run it from cron, but festival works without problems.
I've found some possible causes for mp3blaster not working through cron. Someone suggested that pulseaudio is not started. This shouldn't be the problem for me, since I don't even have pulseaudio installed, and festival is playing sound without problems...
I don't know what I should do to make it work.
Here is my script - runalarm.sh:
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I don't want to include the wakeup text here since it contains profanity.
The mp3 player could be another one too. mp3blaster happens to be the only player I know that is easy to run from console, like this "mp3blaster goodsong.mp3", without and playlist creation or other stuff like that.
I can run the runalarm.sh from SSH console and it works fine, the mp3 starts playing and festival speaks after that. When run from cron, festival starts speaking right away and no mp3 is heard.
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Of corse I have tried with full path like this
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Here is my crontab file:
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Have any one of you faced this kind of problem before ?
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