> On 18 Feb 2022, at 01:53, Mike Wright <nob...@nospam.hostisimo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > There is a java app that writes directly to the pulseaudio MASTER channel at > full volume twice a day. I'm pretty sure the neighbors hear it. My idea is > to use crontab to run at 12:59 Monday-Friday. It waits 59 seconds, mutes the > audio, waits 6 more seconds and unmutes the audio. > From the command line it works. I can't make it work using crontab. It does > show up in the syslog. > > This is in my /etc/crontab (all on one line) > > 59 12 * * 1-5 root test -x /usr/local/bin/mute && \ > ( \ > /bin/sleep 59 ; \ > /usr/local/bin/mute ; \ > /bin/sleep 6 ; \ > /usr/local/bin/unmute \ > ) > > This is /usr/local/bin/mute and unmute: > > sink=$(pactl info | grep "Default Sink" | cut -d' ' -f3) > pactl set-sink-mute "$sink" 1 (unmute uses 0) > > > Anybody explain why this doesn't do what I intend?
Any output like errors will be emailed by cron. Try running /usr/bin/mail and see if you have emails with errors. Personally I do not use cron anymore, I use system timer units. Then I can look in the journal —user for all logs from the service. Barry > > Thanks, > Mike Wright > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
