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To: Dennis Shasha <shasha@courant.nyu.edu>
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Dennis,

We should have cron installed on all the linux/solaris machines.  You probably
just want to pick a system like access.cims.nyu.edu and setup your crontab to
do it.  You'll need to use the command 'crontab -e' to edit your crontab file
(make sure you have set your EDITOR environment variable to you're default
editor before running that that).  For example:

$ setenv EDITOR vim
$ crontab -e

Then you can have a crontab entry like:

# * * * * *  command to be executed
# - - - - -
# | | | | |
# | | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
# | | | +------- month (1 - 12)
# | | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | +----------- hour (0 - 23)
# +------------- min (0 - 59)

# At 7am every day, Send me a reminder
0 7 * * * mail -s "My Reminder" shasha@cs.nyu.edu < ~/FILE_TO_MAIL


--
Andrew

Dennis Shasha <shasha@courant.nyu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd like to send myself an email every day to remind myself to do
> something.
> How can I do that?
> We don't seem to have crond.
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> 



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