On 03/31 01:56 , Raymond Norton wrote: > I'm trying to get an alert sound file to play via the command line > when an alarm is tripped. It works when I am manually fire of the script > at the counsel, and I can see the script called in syslog when the alarm > is tripped, but do not get any sound then. > > When I used mplayer to play the file I would get pulseaudio errors about > /var/www not being the home directory. try running the command from 'cron' owned by the user who runs the alarm software. Make sure that user has permission to access the audio devices. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com