[Remind-Fans] Poll: Anyone using ONCE?

[Dianne Skoll]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 00:42:11 +0000
houston via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> I don't actually do this, but I've played around with the idea of
> using remind as a full cron replacement. From that perspective, ONCE
> might be a little handy.

Remind (in my experience) isn't a great replacement for cron.  They
have quite different use-cases.

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 11:58:36 -0500
Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> There have been a number of times I've considered using ONCE as a
> solution (mostly like the backup-type suggestion in the man-page),
> but I run with noatime set on my laptops' mounts to save on
> battery/disk, so it was something I couldn't use.

I wrote a separate program called "run-every-n-minutes.pl" that I use
for cron-type stuff where my computer is not always on.  It runs from
cron, keeps its own timestamp files and runs if it hasn't run in the
last "n" minutes where "n" is specified on the command-line.  It has a
bunch of other options too... maybe I should clean it up and publish
it... hmm...

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 19:34:34 -0700
Edward Shapard via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> I use "ONCE" for a few executables that I want to run only once that
> day. Specifically, I run taskwarrior commands to add tasks.
> Taskwarrior doesn't have the scheduling capabilities that remind does.

Oh darn. :)  So "ONCE" actually has a user.  OK, I guess it stays, but
I might fix it so it keeps a proper timestamp file somewhere rather than
relying on the atime of the reminder file.

Regards,

Dianne.
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