Tracking Reminders using Scripts

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Friends,

I have a script that triggers an reminder e-mail two weeks in advance which will remind the recipient to do a particular task. The problem with this script is, it sends the reminder e-mail 2 weeks before & it send the reminder e-mail only once. It by no means have a logic/functionality to check whether the end user have completed the task or not.

Any idea how can I implement the functionality of tracking the reminder?

I am not stuck only with ksh. Any script that can ease this logic will do good for me. Also, is having a GUI for such task is mandatory? I prefer to do it all in the background. Any ideas or guidance?

---------- Post updated 07-28-10 at 10:11 AM ---------- Previous update was 07-27-10 at 09:05 PM ----------

Any idea people?? So, using GUI is the only way? I mean having a GUI front end to let the user update the status of the reminder. And, having a background php script to do the job of checking the status of a task and decide whether to send the reminder for a task or not? Is this the only available solution? Are there any scripts existing already to do this job?

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How can you know the end user have completed the task by shell? Any command can be used for that?

run your_detect_script , if finish, return 1, if not, return 0 to var task, something like this?

your_task_detect_script 

if [ "$task" =="1" ]; then
  echo "Thank you everyone".
elso
  echo "Working on task ABC" |mailx -S "New job coming" XXX@XXX.com
fi

Put this script in cronjob.

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Yeah you are correct. I do not think we can use any script to know whether the end user has done his task. I have now decided to go with VBA+excel for automating this thing. Like when a user updates a cell with Y/N. Thanks for your reply and time :slight_smile: