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On 4/21/07, Matt Kowalski <matt.kowalski at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a VLC server streaming audio from a scanner over a network which I > can easily listen to with the VLC player. I've successfully recorded the > audio to an mp3 file on Windows and on Linux. The problem is I want to > record 24/7 and have the file rotate every day but can't seem to write a > shell script that will properly rotate the file. Does anyone have any > experience with this? I would think a cron job set to midnight would work. Make the invoked script look for any previous scripts running, and send a signal to exit cleanly. Make it spawn vlc and write to a file using 'date +%F'. You could rotate the old captures as well. There are many ways to do this... -- Kristian Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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