On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 19:33, David Rogers<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > This is not an urgent problem, but I'm curious about what's going on. > If I run this: > > remind -q -g -b1 ~/.reminders | gxmessage -buttons "OK:0" -default > "OK" -title "today's reminders" -file - > > from cron, it works fine. > > However, if I run the same thing as a timed reminder from within my > .reminders file, it works a little _too_ well, spewing many many > (many!) copies of the same message onto my screen. It's the correct > message; I just want to tell it enough is enough! :-) > > - What have I done wrong?
Well, adding the "-r" flag would stop the RUN statement from re-running itself a million times - duh! And I've added a DISPLAY at the beginning as some kind of insurance, even though I'm only running one display: export DISPLAY=:0.0 && remind -r -q -g -b1 ~/.reminders | gxmessage -buttons "OK:0" -default \ "OK" -title "today's reminders" -file - This is better - but now instead of a million reminders all at once, I still get a duplicate reminder of the day's events every five minutes, due to the fact that I have Remind running in daemon mode. But isn't it only 6:00 for one minute, and then it's 6:01? I'm trying to figure out why it keeps repeating every time the daemon wakes up, even though it isn't 6:00 anymore. Thanks David _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
