Scheduler

[Mike Garfias]

why not use 'at' to send yourself a reminder?

ex: at 4pm friday
echo "go have beer" | mail -s beer michael 
^d

then at 4pm friday you'd get a piece of mail saying "go get beer"

Jerry Davis spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:27:15 -0700
> Michael <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > ooooo.... I just thought of something.... would message of the day
> > work here?
> 
> probably not. it is meant to give a system-wide message to those who
> login.
> 
> you can put the date/time and a message that goes with it, and then
> write a script that prints to the screen, at the time specified.
> (make it a cron job that wakes up every 5 minutes and checks to see if
> the date/time is within the next 5 minutes, and if not then exit)
> 
> I've written something similar in perl. What mine does is to send me a
> mail at work at 2PM for anything that is for that specific day.
> 
> It could be adapted to do what you want.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:12, Michael wrote:
> > > I HATE missing appointments! Is there a tool that will pop a
> > > reminder up onto a terminal emulator?
> > >
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