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.
Of course, writing this script and posting it here was just
another excuse for not getting back to work. So here it is:
#!/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/