Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

[jack craig]

On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox<theatre at sasktel.net>  wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>      
>>> Any  ideas much appreciated?
>>>        
>> Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out;
>> there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play
>> sound for a user who is not currently logged in.
>>
>> I don't know enough about pulseaudio to guide you there; perhaps a
>> google search for something like "pulseaudio user authentication" or
>> "pulseaudio user authorization" will be of value?
>>      
> Solved:
>
> I simply removed pulseaudio and it works fine now. (on F11)
>
> #yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>
> I must say, I find it kind of Windows-Like of Pulseaudio to force
> users to be logged in for audio to work. I think ALSA works just fine.
>
>    
in all fairness, PA has been working fine for me...

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