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From: ford@elgar.UUCP (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Unixpc DWB and UA stuff
Summary: /etc/smgr ~= {sysinfo,cron,errdemon,update}
Keywords: unixpc
Message-ID: <216@elgar.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 21:27:47 GMT
References: <6270@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <683@hodge.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford@elgar.UUCP (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Omnicron Data Systems,  Bonita, CA
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In article <683@hodge.UUCP> rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge) writes:
>Also, you can kill off the smgr and just use 'cron' instead.  I do.

Cron's work is just part of what smgr does.  Instead of smgr, I run
cron, update, and errdemon all the time, and usually run icus!lenny's
sysinfo program when I'm logged in (I modified it to display the date
& time).

Conveniently, cron and update are supplied with the Unix PC, but
errdemon wasn't.  I wrote a simple version, available for the asking.

Trivia:  the write(1) command sends messages to a user logged in on the
console by *WRITING* to /dev/error and letting smgr put the pop-up
window on the screen.  Somebody at CT was on drugs when they came up
with *that* idea.

					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.