[lug] CRON

[cool at eklektix.com]

I would also suggest taking a look at ical -- I have used it
to send me reminders via email.

Liz Coolbaugh (for the LWN team)
cool at lwn.net


On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:33:59PM -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
> I have set my shells to do my reminding by creating a reminder file and
> then having a line in the shell init file that cat-ted out the file.  
> 
> I also hear that wives and mothers are good at reminding (esp. when you
> are in front of a computer), trouble is that they don't program
> according to the likes of husbands and sons :)
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> John Starkey wrote:
> > 
> > In my effort to move everything to linux (w/o GUI) I want to start moving
> > reminders over.
> > 
> > I have cron doing a couple jobs for some apps I've installed. I did the
> > entries but they aren't very similar to what I wanna do here. I checked RH
> > Unleashed and it's not giving me the info I want, and the example I tried
> > from that book a few months ago didn't work at all.
> > 
> > I need to have reminders show up on the screen and some I want emailed. If
> > I write a script to simply echo "whatever I need to say to myself" how
> > would I require a certain keystroke to confirm? ( an IF statement maybe??
> > )
> > 
> > Is it possible to do this on ttyS[1-6] and have input from one confirm for
> > all the vt's??
> > 
> > And in the daily entry in crontab what do the "*" represent. If I remember
> > correctly they're 15 minute increments in the hourly line.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > John
> 
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