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<span class="date">19 November</span> <span> / </span>
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<a href="https://www.duckland.org/" title="Posts by Don Harper" rel="author">Don Harper</a>
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<h1 class='entry-title'> Alerting with Remind</h1>
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<h1 id="alerting-with-remind">Alerting with Remind</h1>
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<p>Back in my <a href="links://slug/so-you-need-a-calendar/">article on Remind</a>, I
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talked about the simple power of remind to power your scheduling needs.
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That is all fine and good, but how to you get it to tell you when you
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have an event?</p>
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<p>In its simplest form, when you run <em>remind</em> from the command line, it
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will not only display the current day’s reminders, but it will run in
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the background and wake up to tell you about other reminders on the
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screen while you work.</p>
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<p>This is fine, but what happens if you do not have that termial open in
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front of you? Well, I have two ways I approach that issue.</p>
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<p>First, when I run under X (<a href="links://slug/what-do-i-use/">yeah, yeah, I know, but I use cli tools
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under X</a>), I have this added to my
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.xinitrc:</p>
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<p>remind -z -k’xmessage -buttons okay:0 -default okay %s&’ ~/.reminders
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&</p>
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<p>Let’s look at the command line:</p>
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<li>The <strong>-z</strong> tells remind to wake up every 5 minutes and reread the
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.reminders file.</li>
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<li>The <strong>-k</strong> tells remind to run a command instead of simply printing
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the reminder to the screen</li>
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<li><strong>xmessage -buttons okay:0 -default okay %s&</strong> is the secret sauce
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of this. This is the command run when there is an alarm. This
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command line calls xmessage (which is on pretty much any box with X)
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winpopup, or whatever. This is what puts the alert in your face
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when you are not looking at the screen. The <strong>&</strong> is needed to make
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this command non-blocking by putting it in the background.</li>
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<p>That all good if you are setting at your computer. But, what do you do
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when <em>gasp</em> you leave to computer? This is a little tricker. For this,
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my solution needs two things: 1) a computer which is always on and 2) a
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it is not (I use a hosting provider which does not like long running
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processes). The command line is similar to the one for X, but with a
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difference:</p>
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<p>TZ=CDT6CST ~/bin/remind -z -k"echo %s</p>
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