Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

[Jaume Guasch <jaume.guasch@psi.ch>]

Hi,

Dave Selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes 
> birthday etc !!, 
> 
[...]
> 
> I need an application that will warn me when an event is comming up,
> and if I  
> am not logged at the the time of this pre-set alarm, it will remember the 
> alarm and alert me as soon as I do log in.
> 
[...]
> Any suggestions ?

The calendar program from the bsdmainutils package 

man calendar:
---
NAME
     calendar - reminder service
[...]
     -a      Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the results
             to them.  This requires super-user privileges.
[...]
---

So, put a calendar file in your home directory, and put a file in

/etc/cron.daily/

e.g.
/etc/cron.daily/calendar
---
#!/bin/bash
calendar -a
---

Now this file will be executed by cron (or anacron) once a day, and will
send you reminders ... 

See the man page for the format of the "calendar" file.

Hope this helps,

Jaume


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