The error about /var/www not being the home directory is because the script is launched by the www-data user. I have tried changing group membership, etc, but still get this error: Apr 1 08:18:21 linuxmint zmfilter[15681]: INF [Executing '/usr/local/sbin/alert /usr/share/zoneminder/events/12/6454'] Apr 1 08:18:21 linuxmint pulseaudio[15687]: core-util.c: Home directory /var/www not ours. Apr 1 08:27:28 linuxmint pulseaudio[15862]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. Apr 1 08:27:28 linuxmint pulseaudio[15862]: main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock ** On 03/31/2011 02:04 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110401/bb14c3e7/attachment.html>