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Re: Need help running mplayer in the background

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On Fri, 20 May 2011 15:36:28 +0100, Chris Davies wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Doesn't seem to help the cron problem
> 
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:19:40 +0100, Chris Davies wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I created the cron job with gnome-schedule.
> 
> OK. That's the third part (and some of the second part) of Q1: you're
> editing a per-user crontab rather than the system one. The other answers
> would help, though, please.
> 
> To answer Q2, try this command: grep CRON /var/log/*
> 
> For Q3, you'll find that cron emails the owner of the crontab, so if
> you're putting stuff in root's crontab, that's who will get emailed.
> (But note that on some distributions, root's email is forwarded to the
> initial/default non-root.)
> 
> Chris

I don't see anything that looks like an error in /var/log/cron. I also 
haven't been able to find where it put the job, it's not in /etc/crontab 
or anywhere else under /etc.

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    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-18 03:41 +0000
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          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-19 10:05 -0400
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  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
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        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:46 +0000
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            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 18:28 +0000
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