I'm running LinuxLite 2.0 32bit on a Dell 3000.
I have never come across anything like this and to tell you, I am stumped.
Here are the contents of my crontab file:
Code:
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/arecord -t wav -f cd -d 42 /home/randy/Music/lanting$(date "+\%^b\%d\%y").wav
If I run this from the terminal, everything is fine. It properly records the audio:
Code:
/usr/bin/arecord -t wav -f cd -d 42 /home/randy/Music/lanting$(date "+\%^b\%d\%y").wav
If I run this as it is shown in my crontab file, it records but there is no audio recorded.:
Code:
*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/arecord -t wav -f cd -d 42 /home/randy/Music/lanting$(date "+\%^b\%d\%y").wav
What could be causing this? I tried different cron settings for example 15 14 * * 2
This recorded at 2:15pm on Tuesday (today) but no audio. Yet if I run the code as mentioned above, from the terminal without the cron settings, the recording is fine.
Any ideas what I should do?