8 Jul
2021
8 Jul
'21
10:29 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:56:56 -0700 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On 7/7/21 11:24 AM, John Murphy wrote:
Thanks for the thoughts. There are some selinux libs installed,
but not much else. I added a job to /etc/crontab like:
04 19 * * * root /usr/bin/pw-record /home/john/crontest.wav > /tmp/cronjob.txt
2>&1
and see the same error in the text file.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 19:01:25 +0100 Keith Edmunds
wrote:
https://docs.pipewire.org/group__pw__core.html
----
Connect to a PipeWire instance.
Returns
a The Core Global Object on success or NULL with errno set on
error. The core will have an id of PW_ID_CORE (0)
----
So it would seem that the pipewire client cannot connect to the server
(or something like that). Could be ownership, permissions, even selinux
if it is running. Try:
/usr/bin/pw-record /home/john/crontest.wav > /tmp/cronjob.txt 2>&1
...and have a look in /tmp/cronjob.txt after it's run
/tmp/cronjob.txt says error: pw_context_connect() failed: Host is down
I've no idea what that means, or why that should be so. It could also be that running things from cron does
not establish a
"session" and then you do not have access permission to audio devices
and such (and dbus, as suggested elsewhere in the thread).
It's a long time since I've used root for anything, but I think it
would still have the required permissions to do anything. I begin to
wonder if this is by design, but I still don't know if it works for
anyone else.
--
John.