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Re: Need help running mplayer in the background

From Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Need help running mplayer in the background
Date 2011-05-19 10:05 -0400
Organization Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment
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On 2011-05-18, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've added a line to my script that reschedules itself at now + 1 week 
> which takes care or the repeat. However if there is a standard way of 
> specifying a repeated task I'd like to know it.

With at the only way to repeat a task is by rescheduling it. But it's
curious that your command doesn't work with cron. Does the command line
contain a % sign, or does it depend on environment variables?


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Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:01 +0000
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:14 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-18 03:41 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 13:39 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 16:24 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-19 10:05 -0400
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 17:41 +0000
              Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-20 03:43 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-18 18:49 +0200
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 18:15 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-05-18 05:56 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 22:54 +0100
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 23:11 +0100
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 01:44 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-20 07:30 +0200
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:46 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 09:19 +0100
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:56 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 15:36 +0100
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 18:28 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 12:09 +0000

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