On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:32:54PM +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: > Sender: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 08:15 -0400, William Case wrote: > > <snip> > Been there, done that. > > > There is lots of alarm programs out there, but I want something that is > > simple to set, then grabs you by the throat and won't let you go until > > you do whatever it is you are supposed to do. > > > > Years and years ago I used to have one in dos that was, in the jargon of > > the day, Terminate and Stay Resident. Once you set that sucker it would > > never let you ignore it -- a rising crescendo of flashing screens and > > beeps and baps -- really fffing annoying. > > Cron and a script. > > Beans and rice of the *nix diet. > > Use a while(1) loop to alternate between sleep and calling xmessage or > something of that nature. That'll pretty much give you your TSR > behavior, and keep firing alerts at you that you have to click away. With cron, or at play a gaggle of noxious sounds. $ cat `which sound-alarm` #! /bin/bash # GPL with credit /usr/binplay `locate sounds/gong.wav` wait /usr/bin/play `locate gallery/sounds/train.wav ` Try at now + 2 min sound-alarm ^d Looks like: $ at now + 2 min at> sound-alarm at> <EOT> job 2 at Tue Jul 15 22:39:00 2008 And here comes the dog to see what the fool is doing this time. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Looking for a place to hang my hat :-( -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
