avg@litwin.com (Anil Gokhale) (03/07/91)
Recently there was a reminder program "remind" which I downleaded and tried to install. Following are some of difficulties/probles I encountered. Does anyone have any solutions? ( I am not able mail directly to the author due to problems with mail at out end. ) 1) It appears that the only way to add new entries to the system is to go edit the .reminders or some equivalent file. Is there a fuction in remind itself to add entries interactively ? 2) Running remind without the -q option DOES create a problem. I tested it with a single entry of type AT (i.e. timed reminder). The reminder itself worked. BUT about 3 hours letter, the system started complaining about running out of queue on a couple of things (I forgot what. allocq?) 3) One of the other ways is to use the "mail" to deliver a reminder. That did not seem as good to me as delivering it directly on the screen. 4) Using the script included with the destribution (remind-all.sh) leads to mail being created at the time of running the script and delivering the reminder to mail. Nothing shows up on the screen or in mail at the time specified in AT argument. Any clues what I am doing wrong? I did read the manual (man page) but I am still lost. Anil Gokhale litwin.litwin.com Houston, Texas
pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard) (03/10/91)
In article <1991Mar7.152436.4243@litwin.com> avg@litwin.com (Anil Gokhale) writes:
1) It appears that the only way to add new entries to the system is to go
edit the .reminders or some equivalent file. Is there a fuction in remind
itself to add entries interactively ?
None to my knowledge. What's wrong using an editor?
3) One of the other ways is to use the "mail" to deliver a reminder.
That did not seem as good to me as delivering it directly on the screen.
Isn't this a matter of taste, or choice?
4) Using the script included with the destribution (remind-all.sh)
leads to mail being created at the time of running the script and
delivering the reminder to mail. Nothing shows up on the screen or in mail
at the time specified in AT argument.
It works for me. I modified the script however to use the mailer
where it is, they are not located at the same place on all systems. I
changed the MAIL=/usr/bin/mail line to MAIL=/usr/bin/mailx.
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