48.5 leave: A Maddening Aid to Quitting on Time
No.
It's the
leave
program that you started to remind you of a meeting.
(A little while ago, it already told you that
When will it stop nagging you?
When you log out,
leave
stops automatically.
Also, newer versions of
leave
will quit after ten minutes, saying
On some versions of leave , you can't set an alarm for any time tomorrow (past midnight). But you can use sleep ( 40.2 ) to start the leave past midnight. For example, maybe it's 10 p.m. now and you want to leave at 1 a.m. Midnight is two hours or 7200 seconds (60 x 60 x 2) from now. Add a fudge factor of 10 minutes (600 seconds) and type:
You can also kill leave -though you have to use the "sure kill," signal 9 ( 38.8 ) . To see leave lurking in the background and get its PID ( 38.3 ) , you usually need the ps ( 38.5 ) -x option. Piping through grep leave will shorten the ps output:
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