[ale] Sound Volume Depending on Time of Day?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 13 June 2003 12:39 am, Ryan Neily wrote:
> I have written a little script to basically tell me when new mail has
> arrived and what the mail's purpose is. My box is currently playing a
> different sound based on what Procmail filter rules the particular
> e-mail falls into.
>
> What I am trying to do now is to change the volume of the speakers
> depending on the time of the day.  I can think of plenty of bad ways to
> do this that would work (crontab calling aumix at particular times of
> the day), however I am looking for something a little more efficient.

That seems efficient to me.  crontab is already running and is designed for 
just such a purpose.  aumix is a lean, command line program.  Combining 
the two is just what Unix was designed for.

Michael
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