[olug] cron job
Jake Churchill
jachurchill at cox.net
Mon Aug 1 18:46:57 UTC 2005
How do I set a cron job to kill an application at a given time. I have
cron jobs set to start X applications. For example, my alarm is set via
cronjob to start an XMMS playlist. I have a shell script to do this:
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0.0
/usr/bin/xmms /home/<username>/Desktop/Playlist.m3u
I need to create a script to kill it and I can't figure out the string
using ps aux | grep xmms. I know I need a variable in there somewhere
to catch the PID of xmms and then I pass that to kill but I'm having a
hard time. Someone once sent me code to do this and I lost it when I
installed SuSE. Any suggestions?
Jake
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