On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:54:46PM +0100, timofonic timofonic wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:25 PM, David F. Skoll <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > timofonic timofonic wrote: >> > >> >> I would like to know if it's possible to run Remind as a daemon. I >> >> mean having a script for it on /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d locations, and >> >> the user interface app connecting to it. >> > >> > No, this is not possible. >> > >> > You could, I suppose, write a daemon that manages the sockets and talks >> > to a Remind co-process, but permissions become an issue. How do you >> > control who sees which reminder file? >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > David. >> >> User and password? I did think on something like OpenLDAP but with >> Remind, but it seems it's not there. >> >> So no possible solution other than coding something for it? > > Maybe somethign like cron where central remind files are stored under > /var/spool/remind per-user and could include remind files in your home > directory or whereever. > > remindd (extra d) could just run as a daemon and parse files in this > spool directory. > > Maybe "remind -e" could edit your spool file via $EDITOR like crontab > -e :-) > > Anyways, probably wouldn't be too difficult to code something up for > yourself... just some ideas. > > Ray
Thanks for the ideas, anyway I'm still too newbie at coding. The daemon thing makes me thing about syncing different remind(d) instances, what about doing it? Regards. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
