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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions at reminder script Post 302560599 by csharp100 on Friday 30th of September 2011 09:46:23 AM

09-30-2011

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That did not solve my problem. I may not have explained it correctly so I will try again. The script is to send a reminder to me using the at command. If I am online, then it will write to me. If I am offline, then it will email me. If I am online, the script will "interrupt me" with the reminder but it also sends a mail message with the aforementioned, "stty: :Inappropriate ioctl for device". If I am offline, the script mails me two messages. The original reminder and the "stty: :Inappropriate ioctl for device" message.
When I tried the above code suggested by Corona688, I got no message and received a mail message, "Ambiguous output redirect." Therefor I am stuck.

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SEND-REMINDERS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 SEND-REMINDERS(1)

NAME

       Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions

SYNOPSIS

       Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.	Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
       and yearly events.  Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.

       This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job.  It mails the actual reminders out.

       When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders.  When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
       user.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --simulate
	     Does not actually send any emails out.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28							 SEND-REMINDERS(1)