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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 and crashes.

Any solutions are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Usually, this means you are not using the same user's crontab, or some environment variable is missing, or you use the RC interface (which requires a TTY).

--rc-fake-tty if you're in the last case

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

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