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Re: Need help running mplayer in the background

From General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Need help running mplayer in the background
Date 2011-05-19 17:41 +0000
Message-ID <93l326F2nvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:05:54 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:

> 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?
This is the script I'm calling, the only env variable that I'm calling is 
set in the script

#!/bin/csh -f
set DAY=`date +%B_%d_%Y_%H_%M`
setsid mplayer -prefer-ipv4 -nolirc -dumpstream 
http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC -ac mp3lacm -dumpfile /
home/foobar/s_drive/mp3/stream/bob_${DAY}.mp3

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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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