21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
5:23 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:35:57AM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote:
But there is one more thing. Cron executes the 'fetchmail' command listed in my crontab list irrespective of whether I am logged in or not. But it executes the vlc command only if I am logged in.
Is there any way I can make cron play the song (either with vlc or any other program) even without me being logged in?
<stupid, easy, security issue, solution> run it as root?
Either that or setup auto log-in - which is the better of the two devils?
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