cew@isi-hobgoblin.ARPA (Craig E. Ward) (08/02/85)
Does anyone have a reminder program which runs as a system daemon? All of the programs I have seen require the user to run them in order to get reminders. It also should be able to send multiline messages through the mail or directly to the terminal if the user is logged in. Programs like calendar or rs are capable of sending only one line and do not have a facility for writing to the terminal (unless the user himself runs them). In case anyone is familiar with it, the program I am trying to duplicate is the REMIND program from Tops-20. Users add reminders to a system wide database and an operator job runs as REMDAE to send the reminders. Thanks, Craig
chute@dartvax.UUCP (Christopher Chute) (08/05/85)
> Does anyone have a reminder program which runs as a system daemon? All > > ...Programs like calendar or rs are capable of sending only one line ... Forgive the group, but this is a followup. My poor System V (a Unix PC 7300) does not even have such goodies as "calendar", or even "at" for that matter. Is this an example of unbundling or are things like "at" not System V but just the legendary Unix 7. It would be very nice to have a pseudo batch queue routine like "at", cron and crontab are a bit tedious for my naive Unix abilities. Flame me if you will but my perverse curiosity on this matter causes me to perhaps mis-post. Cheers,