[Gslug-general] Nocturnal LFNW attendee requests wake-up call

[Glenn Stone]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
>At practically 2008-04-24 02:00 -0400, Paul DeShaw pronounced:
>
>> I am worried about missing the Linux Fest bus from NSCC.  Would anyone be willing to call me at about 7 AM Saturday?  Email me offlist and I'll give you my number.
>
>Email your phone (most have an email address that will get sent to you
>via sms).
>
>$ man at

lessee... and some variant of 

while ! (who | grep $USER)
do
  echo "Time to go to LFNW!" | mail -s "Wake up!" $CELLPHONEMAIL
  sleep 300
done

(This of course presumes you log off the machine in question before going to
bed, but leave it running; how to deal with other variations is left as an
excercise :) 

(Most cellphones have an "alarm" function, too, but this is more fun. :)

-- at this point Glenn, amused