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iosonofabio

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 105

remind: process does not terminate?

Hi to all!

I'm using remind (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) as a (CLI) calendar program. To see my next events I just tip:

rem

Now, I noticed that the rem (or remind) process is not killed after the output is printed. I can use the shell again, but the rem program is somehow still running in background. As a consequence, after some rem runs the whole computer gets very slow and unusable.

I can obviously cast the command:

rem;killall rem

but it is not a good solution. Do you know if this behaviour is normal, due to some bad configuration, or a bug?

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: remind: process does not terminate?

By default, remind stays running, since it is supposed to deal also with timed reminders - and the only way to do that is to keep running. There's a switch which disables this, namely -q. So I run remind as 'rem -q'.

iosonofabio

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 105

Re: remind: process does not terminate?

Thank you. I coulld not find the right option in the man page, because it only says: "not to queue reminds" but does not mention the process itself.

Now I can safely put the command into my wmii status bar, where it gets filtered through some sed and shows me how many reminders I have.

*david_a*

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 80

Re: remind: process does not terminate?

You can go here and here for some more suggestions on Remind use.

iosonofabio

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 105

Re: remind: process does not terminate?

You can go here and here for some more suggestions on Remind use.

Thanks. I had obviously checked out those sources.