[Remind-Fans] remind+geektool=bash crash

[Lewis Overton]

So I turned around three times, sprinkled pixie dust on the Mac, and now it
all works. Must be about time for bed.

Thanks for the help.

On 8/1/06, Lewis Overton <akakie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response. That runs remind. From GeekTool, it
> displays only a red dot (which is usually green). Run from CLI it displays
> reminders. I'm kinda out of my depth.
>
>
> On 8/1/06, Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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