cron puzzles me

[Eric Feliksik]

Alfred Jim G. Amada wrote:
> im running a script containing this line:
> 
> mpg123 -z --list playlist &
> 
> 
> but it seem's that it could not run on background? what could possiblle 
> be the problem? nid help pls
> 

I'm not very sure, but chances are that cron doesn't know your $PATH, so 
it can't find mpg123. Try the full path (/usr/bin/mpg123). While 
debugging this, you can also make a bash-script that runs the command 
you want, with output to files (ls >dumpfile.txt) so you can see what 
actually happens. You only run the bash-script from cron (again, full path).