On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 06:59 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 00:48, John Jason Jordan<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> The key word in the above is "simple." Cron is a thousand times more > >> program than I need or care to take the time to learn. > > then meet cron's little brother at, already installed and running on > > your machine. > > If I understand it correctly at will execute pretty much any command I > could call from the terminal. Is there a command that will send a simple > line via e-mail to someone other than myself? My wife wants a reminder > to do something once a week, on Saturday. She runs XP so cron isn't an > option for her. But it is for me. I'd like to put a command to send her > a reminder e-mail on Fridays. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > if you want it to repeat, just use cron. you can use the "mail" command to do what you describe. I used to do this to send text messages to my phone as reminders before I switched to google calendar. this will do what you describe: 0 19 * * 5 echo "remember to do that thing tomorrow" | mail [email protected] reply with any changes you need made and I will be happy to tune it for you. else, you can view the man pages for crontab and mail. I keep this as the first line of my crontab: #min hour date month d-o-w(0-6 sun-sat) the # makes it a comment, meaning cron will ignore it. the rest describes what the first 5 fields of the cron entry are for. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
