Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:32:56 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: killall -9 program-name does not work Message-ID: <AANLkTi=%2Bc4LMBuchjQfZ6_TsFi2fU9C3zSogGYHNQymc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100830120007.543fa5dd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <AANLkTin5JbPjrbMYEdoWK7xuUJy69foXKEGNp0jmx1aD@mail.gmail.com> <20100830120007.543fa5dd@gumby.homeunix.com>
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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
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