From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 11:40:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FFE16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C96C43D73 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:40:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AjkgF-000J9G-9d; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:39:55 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0MJdsVi056418; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:39:54 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i0MJdscb056417; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:39:54 GMT Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:39:54 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: anubis Message-ID: <20040122193954.GC55754@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040120223640.GB39542@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200401221923.52422.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401221923.52422.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AjkgF-000J9G-9d*CBKgbIazO9g* cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:40:45 -0000 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote: : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold service : for our pabx. : : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all files : in the ftp directory and start playing them. People can listen while on hold : or we can listen in on the loudspeaker on the phone. : : There are plenty of command line driven players out there I am sure. Why a cron job to play them? Why not just ssh in and run it that way? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.