[Remind-Fans] remind+geektool=bash crash

[Paul Pelzl]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:48:08PM -0800, Lewis Overton wrote:
> I have GeekTool set to run a shell command "/usr/local/bin/remind
> ~/.reminders" (no quotes). This does what I expected -- for a while; it puts
> the reminders on the desktop. Unfortunately, it leaves a process running as
> verified by 'ps ax' and after adding 15-20 running processes, bash runs out
> of resources and quits. A restart will bring things back for a while but
> everything repeats.
> 
> This has to be a solved problem. Can someone tell me what to put into
> GeekTool to avoid the problem. Clearly I didn't do it right.

Use "remind -q ~/.reminders" to prevent Remind from launching the
background process.  (In its default mode, Remind continually scans for
the triggering of timed reminders.)

Paul