When I have a lot of work (like lately), PerlMonks is a curse,
because I find it so interesting to hang around here that I end
up spending too little time working. So I wrote this little
program to remind myself of what I should be doing :-)
A couple of points:
- Sorry for the use of system to send email. But I spent a whole 5 minutes writing this script, and I really didn't feel like looking up Mail::Internet or whatever other module might have done the job.
- I made it wait and loop itself instead of putting it in crontab to be able to have the $DISPLAY variable set.
#!/usr/local/perl-5.6.0/bin/perl -w use strict; use PerlMonks; use PerlMonks::Users; my $n=PerlMonks::Users->new; while(1) { my %u=$n->users; if (exists($u{ZZamboni})) { system(q(echo Get to work | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Shouldn +'t you be working on your thesis?" zamboni)); if ($ENV{DISPLAY}) { system(q(wmessage -t "What are you doing?" --c +enter "Get back to work!")); } } sleep 300; }
--ZZamboni
Update: fixed typo: s/spend/spent/
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