On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20 July 2014 05:59, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/20/14 12:21, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> On 19Jul2014 19:08, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> is there an analog for it in Linux?
> >>
> >> More context?
> >
> >
> > I had to look it up to find the FreeBSD man-page.
> >
> > The leave utility waits until the specified time, then reminds you that you have to leave. You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off, leave exits just before it would have printed the next message.
> >
>
> It's a very hard command name to search for, but I don't think it's
> normally packaged for Linux. However it's basically a single file in
> the BSD tree which seems to compile and run okay under Linux, if you
> go to:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/leave/
> You can open leave.c then select download.
> Remove or comment line 42: __FBSDID("$FreeBSD![]()
quot;);
> Then compile and enjoy your somewhat annoying reminder utility.
>
Thanx Ian.
That version, although dated, is the one that
does not use the buffer overflow func calls puts, and fputs.
It uses the write system call.
>
> On 20 July 2014 05:59, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/20/14 12:21, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> On 19Jul2014 19:08, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> is there an analog for it in Linux?
> >>
> >> More context?
> >
> >
> > I had to look it up to find the FreeBSD man-page.
> >
> > The leave utility waits until the specified time, then reminds you that you have to leave. You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off, leave exits just before it would have printed the next message.
> >
>
> It's a very hard command name to search for, but I don't think it's
> normally packaged for Linux. However it's basically a single file in
> the BSD tree which seems to compile and run okay under Linux, if you
> go to:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/leave/
> You can open leave.c then select download.
> Remove or comment line 42: __FBSDID("$FreeBSD
> Then compile and enjoy your somewhat annoying reminder utility.
>
Thanx Ian.
That version, although dated, is the one that
does not use the buffer overflow func calls puts, and fputs.
It uses the write system call.
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