For anyone else who would like to get this working , here is what I have done.
I set all this up via SSH on my desktop rather than the built-in terminal, this allows easy copy & paste as well as file transfers via secure copy (scp)
Installed the aumix-gtk applcation from the repositories.
This mutes the tablet at 11:30pm and un-mutes it at 07:00am
Either reboot or run cron from the command line.
Good Luck
cybergypsy
Can you tell a little more please?
As root, I installed cron, and run crontab -e .. I entered something similar, " 30 23 * * * mplayer file.mp3 " but nothing happens at 23:30... I tried to edit /etc/crontab.. nothing happened
you might need to specify the path to the .mp3 file as the command will be running as root and not as user.
I don't think the crontab files are stored in /etc , I think they're in /var somewhere but I can't check at the moment as I don't have it all installed currently due to the diablo upgrade this afternoon.
I am sure I am root (I see the # in the command line) and I run tar with the 'zxvvf' parameters. How can I check if the script is set as executable?
EDIT: Where should I be positioned to untar the files? If I am in the root directory (/root) the permissions are well assigned (but ./cron/INSTALL fails for other reason). The problem happened standing in mmc1.
Now, I get this when I execute ./cron/INSTALL:
~# ./cron/INSTALL
./cron/INSTALL: line 3: ./UNINSTALL: not found
cp: omitting directory './cron'
cp: cannot stat './crontab': No such file or directory
chmod: /usr/bin/cron: No such file or directory
chmod: /usr/bin/crontab: No such file or directory
ln: /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: File exists
As root, I installed cron, and run crontab -e .. I entered something similar, " 30 23 * * * mplayer file.mp3 " but nothing happens at 23:30... I tried to edit /etc/crontab.. nothing happened
