Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: General Schvantzkoph Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Date: 20 May 2011 11:56:14 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: <93n36uF2nvU4@mid.individual.net> References: <93gr48Fjo7U2@mid.individual.net> <93lvc6F2nvU2@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tKcZOdoN4IsY+XCnH7btjwZwfnuhSFwGXXGtPCD07hSbDiZz9g Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ph1TlcZr5Il9AxTQIIQ9hDz2g8I= User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:1187 On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:19:40 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> Doesn't seem to help the cron problem > > 1. What cron entry have you got, in which cron file, and how did you put > it there? > > 2. What does cron say it's trying to execute? (check in /var/log/syslog > and friends, depending on distro) > > 3. What error message do you get emailed to you from cron when it > appears to fail? > > Cheers > Chris I created the cron job with gnome-schedule.