Schedule Streaming Audio Recordings in Ubuntu

Step 4 Use KCron to schedule your jobs

Cron, the wonderful but extremely confusing little text file and associated service deserves a whole series of instructubles unto itself. To make things simpler, we're going to use KCron (which we installed earlier) instead. If the install went as planned, you should see KCron under Applications --> System Tools. Alternately, the program can be launched from a terminal by typing "kcron". Use Ctrl+N to create a new job, and configure the job as shown in the picture. In the image you can see I configured the program /scripts/streamrecord to run all months, mon-fri at 12pm with 0 minutes.

The second script you made, called 'pkill' is what actually ends mplayer and allows the first script to continue. You'll need to set up another cron job to run that script as well. For my example, I end up with two jobs in KCron. (see 2nd image)