Scheduling Ubuntu to "Wake Up"

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Oct 25 23:18:28 UTC 2007


Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> 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.

Given that this doesn't actually handle the wake-up part, surely you can do
the same thing out of Gnome's calendar?  In kontact/korganizer, I can
attach an audio file to any calendar alert.  These are pretty simple to
turn on and off.
-- 
derek





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