On 03/13/2012 08:40 AM, wes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Richard C. Steffens<[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is there a command that will send a simple line via e-mail to someone other >> than myself? > 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] >
Sounds simple enough. I haven't used cron for a few years but I remember it wasn't too hard to figure out. > 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. Thanks. > 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. Very helpful. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
