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That is right. I am running vlc with rc --rc-unix . Is there a way to run this in cron mode?

I have a php script which runs from the command line and uses vlc to get radio station info. It uses a local unix socket to communicate with the calling php file. Everything runs fine if I run it from the command prompt. But if I run it as crontab job then its unable to create the local unix socket ...