Scheduling Ubuntu to "Wake Up"

Kenneth P. Turvey kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com
Thu Oct 25 22:54:09 UTC 2007


On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:52:11 -0400, Daniel George Pevny wrote:

> Thank for for the response, Kenneth.  Could you give me an example for
> how the command is used? (ie. a playlist file everyday @ 5:45 am)

chmod /home/me/mymusic/somthing_i_like

at 5:45 AM
> play *.mp3
[Hit ctrl-d here]

That's it.  Assuming your directory has mp3 files in it. 

This will just play it once at 5:45 AM tomorrow.  If you want this to
happen every morning you can put it in the cron script, but I wouldn't. 
Some day you are going to want to sleep in and then it will be a bit of a
pain to turn off.



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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>





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