streamripper scheduling help

I'm new to UNIX and command lines. I downloaded STREAMRIPPER and with some help got it running. I'd like to use CRON to schedule STREAMRIPPER to rip a live streaming MP3 for one hour weekly from the same stream. If anyone can help me out with this feel free to respond and/or email me. toner@mac.com

create a file at /etc/crontab

first few lines look like this:
# $NetBSD: crontab,v 1.13 1997/10/26 13:36:31 lukem Exp $
#
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log

#min hour mday month wday user command

that last bit tells you how to format the remaining lines to run commands. to do something daily at 1:30, you'd put this:

30 1 * * * willy ~/mydailyscript.sh

willy would obviously be changed to whoever you wanted the process to be run as. last bit would change to whatever you command was, args, switches and all.

bleh

file's there already, so you just have to add to it.

50 14 * * 2 birchett streamripper http://wfmu.oven.com:8000/ -d /Users/birchett/Desktop -l 3600

the above does not work at all, but just

birchett streamripper http://wfmu.oven.com:8000/ -d /Users/birchett/Desktop -l 3600

on the standard command line does work immediately. It seems like cron does not want to process this task! Any clues?

ummmm, make sure pico doesn't wrap the line on you?

Hey, does anyone know how to make it silent. When i set up the crontab it emails me everytime the process starts? With most programs there is usually an option like --silent, but i havent caught wind of anything like that for streamripper.

at the end of your cron entry, add:

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