[PD] messages from cron to Pd
Roman Haefeli
reduzierer at yahoo.de
Thu Jan 21 00:21:05 CET 2010
Hi
Probably cron doesn't find the binaries. Either export all PATHes or
specify absolute pathes for all files/binaries:
* * * * * /bin/echo "foo bla;" | /usr/local/bin/pdsend 3007 localhost
(I know that at least /usr/local/bin/ is not searched by default by
cron).
Roman
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 21:46 +0000, Florian Hollerweger wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am trying to send messages to Pd from cron.
>
> However, the following entry in my crontab...
>
> * * * * * echo "foo bla;" | pdsend 3007 localhost
>
> ... does not seem to make it to the following Pd patch:
>
> [netreceive 3007]
> |
> [print]
>
> whereas running the same command manually creates printout in Pd as
> expected.
>
> I also tried to encapsulate the above line into a shell script, without
> success. The same crontab executes other (non-Pd-related) jobs without
> trouble.
>
> Anyone got a clue what daemons I am fighting here?
>
> best,
> flo.H
>
>
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