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lud@lemm.ee 11 months agocron instead of a calendar
What do you mean by that?
Do you use crontab to save events?
Comment on Cost-cutting tips?
lud@lemm.ee 11 months agocron instead of a calendar
What do you mean by that?
Do you use crontab to save events?
Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Basically, yes. You can configure most cron program to mail task output to you (it’s usually done by setting the
MAILTOvariable in the crontab, provided sendmail is available on your system).So basically, I do things like:
0 9 11 10 echo 'lunch with John Doe at 12:20'It sends me a mail, and I can see the upcoming events with
crontab -l. If it’s not a recurring event, I then delete the rule.TheHolm@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Damn, I’m doing *nixes for nearly 30 years. But never went to that level of minimalism. Nice trick.