[CS-FSLUG] calendar and reminder

[Frank Bax]

At 04:10 PM 5/11/06, Ed Hurst wrote:

>Frank Bax wrote:
> > At 08:34 AM 5/11/06, Ed Hurst wrote:
> >
> >>Assume I use neither GNOME nor KDE. What would be a good calendar
> >>application with reminder functions?
> >
> > I don't use any calendar app. I use cron to send myself email reminders in
> > the future or on fixed schedule.
>
>Won't work for me. I tried it. Having ADD means needing something that
>remembers for me, and I may not read system mail for a few days at a time.


cron output doesn't have to be system mail.  You can either use
         MAILTO=ed
in a user's crontab to send output to any local user; or you can create a 
cron entry like:

0 5 1 */3 *    echo 'every three months' | mail -s 'oil change due' 
ehurst at asisaid.com

to send an email anywhere.