On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary > > personal > > cron job with crontab -e which sets > > > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > > > and runs > > > > M H * * * aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > > > > where M is the minute 0-59 and H is the hour 0-23. I shall do exactly the > > same. Roger > > OK. My crontab has this: > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > # m h dom mon dow command > * * 24 1 * aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > At the minute, no sound. I tried > id=$(id -u) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > and > id=1000 > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > > and no dice.
I suspect that in a personal crontab entry $(id -u) may not refer to the user but maybe to root. Perhaps there is another way to get the user's uid. > I tried > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > and it worked. Maybe this cron doesn't do variables in assignments? Could you now run VLC for a short while and then rerun the personal crontab test with uid 1000 ?. Thanks, Roger
