Jaume Guasch wrote: > > Dave Selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > > I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes > > birthday etc !!, > > > > Any suggestions ? > > The calendar program from the bsdmainutils package I personally have been using the calendar program for many years. > So, put a calendar file in your home directory, and put a file in > > e.g. > /etc/cron.daily/calendar > --- > #!/bin/bash > calendar -a > --- Gratuitous side comment: Why /bin/bash and not /bin/sh? There is nothing bash specific there. Better to use a portable shell. Note that bsdmainutils already installs an example calendar crontab there that has that functionality primed and ready to go, but disabled by default. Being in /etc it is a conffile and may be edited and the configuration preserved as desired across updates. Beware of sites running NIS/YP with users across NFS. I seem to recall an old problem where calendar would walk through all user's home directores, not just the local users, and NFS mount all home directories looking for calendar files. And this would generate duplicate mailings one per machine running calendar. (At my site, potentially thousands of mailings.) Therefore this might be best to be run as a personal user crontab entry instead for those people who desire it. And perhaps that is not an issue with the current implementation. I don't know and did not look. YMMV. Here is my personal crontab entry for a sample. 0 5 * * * calendar | mail -s 'calendar reminder' $LOGNAME And yes, especially for laptops, anacron is best so as not to miss anything. Bob
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