Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:01:13 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: killall -9 program-name does not work Message-ID: <20100902140113.GA69315@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=%2Bc4LMBuchjQfZ6_TsFi2fU9C3zSogGYHNQymc@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin5JbPjrbMYEdoWK7xuUJy69foXKEGNp0jmx1aD@mail.gmail.com> <20100830120007.543fa5dd@gumby.homeunix.com> <AANLkTi=%2Bc4LMBuchjQfZ6_TsFi2fU9C3zSogGYHNQymc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:32:56PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > On 8/30/10, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 +0000 > > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Dear fellow FreeBSD users, > >> > >> I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at > >> work. > >> > >> in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls > >> mplayer and plays a series of music files in a playlist > >> > >> crontab -l > >> has the following > >> # min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command > >> # 0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 0=sun 1=mon > >> 00 07 * * 1-5 ~/.xalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 > >> 30 07 * * 1-5 killall -9 /usr/local/bin/mplayer >/dev/null 2>&1 > > > > You don't need the path to mplayer. > > It makes no difference. This does not stop mplayer from playing :( > > Thanks though for trying to help. > > Regards, > > Antonio Use the command: killall -d mplayer & see what it's saying. ie. don't direct stout & sterr to /dev/null Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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