On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:21:40AM +0100, Daniel James wrote: > > Ecasound doesn't support the option of > > writing to different files every N minutes. > > You could try using the -t flag (time in seconds) to record for a > fixed duration of one hour, then start another ecasound process with > your script. > Thanks, that's what I'm doing currently. I just use the Python wrapper to do admin work (filenames, moving files to another directory etc). I'm using the Pyeca module . The system under observation has now been running flawlessly for the past 5 days 24hours. It's just that when it stalls, everything piles up and then no recording happens till I restart JACK. Thanks for the suggestions, hth