ideas for an old BSD laptop?

[anubis]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 5:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote:
> : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold
> : service for our pabx.
> :
> : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all
> : files in the ftp directory and start playing them.  People can listen
> : while on hold or we can listen in on the loudspeaker on the phone.
> :
> : There are plenty of command line driven players out there I am sure.
>
> Why a cron job to play them?  Why not just ssh in and run it that way?
>
>
> jm

Well the idea was for me to not have to touch it after I started it.  Admin 
staff can update it by sending files to it while I peacefully download 
windows critical updates and porno.