> On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which > > entries come from which calendars. > > Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get > some headers > > like this? > > > > Music History: > > Oct 20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane > crash, 1977 > > > > World History: > > Blah blah blah > > > > Computer History: > > Blah blah blah > > The daily calendar information comes from the script > /etc/periodic/daily/300.calendar. It should be relatively > straightforward to change that script.
My solution... I found an old post by Greg Lehey that I have modified. I run it from cron at midnight every day. It's working great so far! See it in action as a cgi script, w/o the mail line: http://howse.homeunix.net/calendar.shtml Comments, suggestions? --------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/bash # # Go through the calendars and find out what happened today. dir=/usr/share/calendar file=/root/today_cal if [ -a $file ] ; then rm $file fi if [ -n "`/usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.birthday`" ] ; then echo "Birthdays:" >> $file /usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.birthday >> $file echo >> $file fi if [ -n "`/usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.christian`" ] ; then echo "Christian:" >> $file /usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.christian >> $file echo >> $file fi if [ -n "`/usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.computer`" ] ;then echo "Computer:" >> $file /usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.computer >> $file echo >> $file fi if [ -n "`/usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.music`" ] ; then echo "Music:" >> $file /usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.music >> $file echo >> $file fi if [ -n "`/usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.usholiday`" ] ; then echo "U.S. Holidays:" >> $file /usr/bin/calendar -f $dir/calendar.usholiday >> $file fi cat $file | mail -s "Today's Calendar" charles _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
