crontab not executing as regular user

[Dylan Reinhold]

Does the command .dalarm exist in the users home directory (and not just
roots home)?
Can you run ~/.dalarm from the commandline as that user?

If it does, change your redirections from /dev/null into a file so you can
see the errors
30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >>~/dalarm.log 2>&1

Then look in the log for any errors.

Dylan

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear folks,
>
> I am having a difficult time getting cron to run a script.  I ran
> $ crontab -e
>
> Added the commands
> # min hr mon dom dow command
> 30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> Where ~/.dalarm has a command to call mplayer and play some music files.
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/local/bin/mplayer -really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist
>
> I have setup a crontab for root user and it is working there, but not as
> regular user.  I have checked and there is no /var/cron/deny for my user. I
> have read that I need to specify $PATH in crontab file as well in
> documentation.  Any ideas as to how to fix this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Antonio
>
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