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

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:13:03PM +0100, timofonic timofonic wrote:
> 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?
> 

I mean, you could write something that fires off remind periodically
for users who have remind files, but, really... you may as well just
set up crontab entries for root which run remind automatically every
few minutes or so as the user in question. :-)

Ray