[Remind-Fans] Remind in (real) daemon mode?

[timofonic timofonic]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> 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 <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> 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.