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 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? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > -- > Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown > Registered Linux User: 275424 > > This email's random fortune: ... the MYSTERIANS are in here with my > CORDUROY SOAP DISH!! > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss