cron puzzles me

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Alfred Jim G Amada writes:

> im running a script containing this line:
> mpg123 -z --list playlist &

That command will die silently if some file in the playlist doesn't
exist.

Try 

(mpg123 -z --list playlist &> playlist.log &)

as command in the crontab entry (try to give a full path for
playlist.log).

playlist.log will contain any error message mpg123 issues.

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--Jhair