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PLAN(1) |
FreeBSD General Commands Manual |
PLAN(1) |
plan - interactive X/Motif calendar and day planner
pland - daemon for plan
notifier - X/Motif text displayer for
plan [options]
plan [[yyyy]mmdd]hhmm [options] [message]*
pland [-d] -[kK] -[lL]
/usr/lib/plan/notifier [-hdv123] [-ttitle] [-ssubtitle]
[-iicontitle] [file]
plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar
similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in
small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be
listed and edited. This manual page describes the command line options of
plan. For information on how to use plan, refer to the on-line
help pages.
plan has three modes: GUI, which starts up with a window in
interactive mode, append, which adds an appointment from the command line
without windows, and batch, which prints miscellaneous information without
windows. Batch mode is mainly useful for external scripts (CGI and
otherwise) that process appointment data.
pland is a daemon that watches for appointment triggers.
The daemon is normally started from your .sgisession or .xsession file. It
puts itself in the background. If plan is started, it checks for the
existence of the daemon, and offers to start one if it can't find it.
notifier displays the standard input in a window, with
appropriate titles and background colors. The only program that ever uses it
is the daemon; it is a separate program only to keep the daemon small.
- -s
- Standalone, don't offer to start daemon if none exists. Without daemon, no
appointment alarms and warnings will trigger. If a daemon happens to
exist, it is notified when the database changes, but no warning is printed
if it doesn't.
- -S
- When plan starts up, silently start the daemon if it does not exist.
- -f
- Don't fork on startup. This is useful for debugging.
- -k
- If there appears to be another plan running, start up anyway. This
is useful if a ~/.plan.dir/lock.plan file got accidentally left behind,
and plan fails to check whether the older plan still exists. This option
is largely obsolete in version 1.2.
- [[yyyy]mmdd]hhmm
- Add an appointment at mm/dd hh:mm (month/day hours:minutes). If mmdd is
not specified, today's date is used. No menus will start up. No option may
be specified. Instead of the mmddhhmm notation, a date and time may be
specified, such as '24.12. 12:34'.
- -u U
- add appointment to user file U instead of your own appointment file.
- -l T
- Set the length of the new appointment to N, in the form
hours:minutes.
- -n T
- Set new appointment will have no time associated with it. This overrides
the time set with the [mmdd]hhmm option, which must be specified
anyway.
- -r N
- The new appointment repeats every N days. N is an integer greater than
zero.
- -d N
- The new appointment repeats on day N of the month. N is an integer between
1 and 31. There can be multiple -d options.
- -D N
- The new appointment repeats on weekday N. N=0 indicates Sunday, 1 is
Monday, 2 is Tuesday, 3 is Wednesday, 4 is Thursday, 5 is Friday, and 6 is
Saturday. There can be multiple -D options.
- -O N
- The -D days only repeat the Nth time of the month. May be repeated. For
example, "-D 2 -O 2 -O 4" means the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each
month. -O 6 means the last one.
- -e D
- The new appointment stops repeating on date D. D is a string such as
´31.12.' or '12/31'.
- -w N
- Set the early warning time of the new appointment to N minutes.
- -W N
- Set the late warning time of the new appointment to N minutes.
- [message]*
- The note message associated with the new appointment. It should be quoted
if it contains shell metacharacters.
- -h
- List available options.
- -d
- Print fallback X resources and exit. The output can be appended directly
to the ~/.Xdefaults file for modification of the geometry, color, and font
defaults.
- -v
- Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.
- -W [S]
- Indicates that plan is not called by a user but by the web
front-end. In this case, there are no ``own'' appointments because the CGI
script that executes plan is probably run by the pseudo-user
``nobody'' or ``httpd''. A dummy user ``webplan'' is substituted instead,
whose home directory is assumed to be /tmp. All database files from
netplan server S will be read. If S is omitted, ``localhost'' is assumed.
This mode is possible only if there is a netplan server running on S (or
localhost). This option is also available with -t mode and in
non-interactive mode; in this case it determines which files can be listed
with -o -t, and which files can be edited.
- -F
- Print a list of all appointment files found on a given netplan server. By
default the server on the local host is queried, unless a -W option
specifies another server host.
- -H Y
- Print all holidays in the year Y (1970..2037) to stdout and exit. This is
used by the web front-end.
- -o
- If used with -t or -T, also prints appointments of all users configured
with the Config->Users popup.
- -u L
- If used with -t or -T, prints appointments of all users named in the
comma-separated list L. The -o and -u options are mutually exclusive.
- -t [D [n]]
- Print a list of today's appointments to stdout. Don't start up interactive
windows. The exit status is 0 if there are appointments on the specified
date, and 1 otherwise. If a date D is specified, print appointments on
that date. All standard date specifiers work:
- -t +3
- Print appointments in three days
- -t -1
- Print yesterday's appointments
- -t tomorrow
- Print appointments for tomorrow
- -t thursday
- Print appointments for Thursday
- -t 25.12.
- Print appointments for Christmas, if 24-hour mode is selected
- -t 12/25
- Print appointments for Christmas, if 12-hour mode is selected. 12/24 hour
mode is selected with the Config pulldown in the main window.
If a second argument n is given, n days are printed beginning with
day D. The default is 1. For example, "plan -t today 7" prints one
week.
- -T [D [n]]
- Same as -t, but print the end time instead of the length (hi Vera).
- -i
- If used with the -t or -T options, print the data in a form that is easy
to parse for other programs. This is used by the web front-end.
- -W [S]
- switch to web front-end mode and read the files from the netplan server on
host S, or localhost if S is omitted. These files can then be chosen from
with -u. See above for details.
- -d
- Debug mode. Runs pland in the foreground without forking, and prints
debugging information. Recommended if pland seems to die unexpectedly.
(The most common cause of disappearing pland's is a nonfunctional utmp; if
-d is used pland recommends to recompile with the -DRABBITS option.) This
option must precede the other options.
- -l
- Periodically check the system utmp to see if the user is still logged in.
If not, exit. This is the default on SGI, Sun, and other SYSV
systems.
- -L
- (capital L) Do not check utmp. Use this option if pland dies frequently,
and running pland with the -d options reports ``logout, exiting'' for no
apparent reason. On many systems utmp is not reliable, and some programs
like xterm so not create utmp records unless configured properly. Use -L
on such systems. This has been made the default for Debian GNU/Linux, as
it is safer that -l.
- -k
- If another daemon exists, kill it and restart.
- -K
- (capital K) If another daemon exists, kill it and exit.
- -h
- List available options.
- -d
- Print fallback X resources and exit. The output can be appended directly
to the ~/.Xdefaults file for modification of the geometry, color, and font
defaults.
- -v
- Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.
- -1
- Set the window background color to green (early warning).
- -2
- Set the window background color to yellow (late warning).
- -3
- Set the window background color to red (alarm). This is the default.
- -ttitle
- Set the title string above the message text (which is read from
stdin).
- -ssubtitle
- Set the subtitle string below the main title, in a small font.
- -iicontitle
- Set the icon title string that is printed below the mwm/4Dwm icon.
In addition to these options, plan and notifier support the usual
X options -iconic and -geometry.
In Debian, all user files are located in the ~/.plan.dir/ directory, and
slightly renamed.
- ~/.plan.dir/dayplan
- Database with all public entries and configuration options of plan.
See plan(4) for details.
- ~/.plan.dir/dayplan.priv
- Database with all private entries.
- ~/.plan.dir/holiday
- Definition of holidays. See the help text for the "Define
Holiday" popup menu that can be installed with the Holiday
pulldown.
- ~/.plan.dir/lock.plan
- Lockfile that contains the PID of plan. Used to prevent multiple
plan instances, and to send HUP signals to if a non-interactive
plan invocation changed the database.
- ~/.plan.dir/lock.pland
- Lockfile that contains the PID of the pland daemon. Used to prevent
multiple daemons, and to send HUP signals to if the database changed for
any reason.
- /usr/bin/plan
-
The plan program.
- /usr/bin/pland
- The pland daemon.
- /usr/lib/plan/notifier
- The notifier program.
- /usr/share/plan/plan.help
- The online help texts used by plan.
- /usr/lib/plan/plan.help.X
- This help file replaces plan.help if the language is set to X in the
Config Languages pulldown menu.
- /etc/plan/holiday
- Definition of system standard holidays. They are read before ~/.holiday,
and can be overridden in ~/.holiday. They must be edited manually with a
text editor. This files used to live in /usr/lib/plan/.
- /usr/lib/plan/plan_cal.ps
- A PostScript skeleton file required for month and year calendar
printouts.
- /usr/lib/plan/plan.lang.english
- The standard message file. All messages used in plan must be listed
here in ASCII order. If this file is missing, only English messages are
supported.
- /usr/lib/plan/plan.lang.X
- The message file for language X. At startup, plan scans the
/usr/lib/plan directory and puts every file X it finds into the Config
Language pulldown menu. A message is translated by first looking it up in
the plan_cal_english file. If the message is found in line n, it is
translated by using line n of plan.lang.X instead if X was selected with
the Language pulldown. See the Languages item in the online help menu for
instructions for creating new language files.
Note that, though netplan(8) supports primitive access
control (which requires editing a access list text file on the server host),
no support for access control is provided by the plan front-end in
this version. Refer to netplan(8) for details.
Thomas Driemeyer <thomas@bitrot.de>
Please send all complaints, comments, bug fixes, and porting
experiences to me. Always include your plan version as reported by
"plan -v" in your mail. To be added to the mailing list, send mail
to majordomo@bitrot.de with the line "subscribe plan" (without the
quotes) in the message body (not the subject).
See http://www.bitrot.de/plan.html for new releases.
Please note that the Debian GNU/Linux package does not install all executables
in the locations where the upstream author places them. The locations
documented in this manpage are the Debian ones.
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