On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] wanted: hacker for small SFD script
>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
>> The playing part is easy. In crontab:
>>
>> #mn hr dm mo dw
>> 0,30 * 16 9 * mplayer -fs $MOVIE
>
> Won't that run multiple instances of mplayer? Is there a way to tell mplayer
> to use only one instance or would we have to add killall mplayer?
It would, but you said the movie is only ~25 minutes long. I'm implicitely
assuming the former one exits before the current one starts. Of course, if
someone pauses it, that assumption breaks.
I also didn't come up with a way to kill xdaliclock before the next round
starts. Maybe prepend that cron command with "killall mplayer ; killall
xdaliclock ;" just to be sure. Heck, you can even get highfalutin' and put
it into a script and call that script from cron.
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