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From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Need help running mplayer in the background
Date: 18 May 2011 03:01:28 GMT
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I can't run mplayer in the background. This command works fine if I execute it without the redirect
but it gets suspended if I do a >& log &. My real goal is to run it as a cron job, but it's getting 
killed when cron executes it which I assume is the same problem as that I'm seeing when I put it in
the background. What am I missing?

mplayer -dumpstream http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC -ac mp3lacm -dumpfile /home/foobar/s_drive/mp3/stream/bob_${DAY}.mp3 >& log &