Hi Sean, This seems a bit complicated, I tried something else. I set the sticky bit on the morse binary so it was rwsr-xr-x but that didn't work either. Now I tried to run the same thing fron the crontab, on my laptops that works very well, but on the PC I get: pa_simple_Write failed Somehow I feel it might be more of an alsa problem then an issue with pulseaudio, but I'm no export. On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:26:10PM -0800, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > The easiest thing would be to use sudo within the procmail command to > change effective user to the user that has the pulse session. You can > configure sudo to allow a password-less user change with a specific > command string. Here is an example sudoers line: > > procmail ALL=(sounduser) NOPASSWD: /opt/scripts/do_sound_stuff > > This allows the user "procmail" to run the command > "sudo -u sounduser /opt/scripts/do_sound_stuff" without requiring a > password. If "do_sound_stuff" is a script, make sure that it's > appropriately protected from editing. > > You might also need to add the following line to sudoers to allow > headless commands: > > Defaults !requiretty > > > --Sean -- Adri P. van Bloois "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." Robert Swan.