Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
- Subject: Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:40:08 -0800
On 11/12/02 4:04 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:
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But what you want, of course, is to perform "kill -9 pid", where pid is
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the required process id.
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You just need to add the forgotten part in your first line:
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set msdbdPID to do shell script "/bin/ps -auwx | grep -v /usr/bin/awk |
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/usr/bin/awk
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'/Microsoft Database Daemon/ {print $2;}'"
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Now, as Paul wrote, there is a much easier way to do this in that case ;-)
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Incidentally, what the hell is that M$ daemon?
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I see it from times to times runnig in the background, and I would be
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happy to know the reasons.
The daemon continually checks the current time against the Entourage
database for Reminders for calendar events and tasks. When the time for a
Reminder occurs, it tells the application Office Notifications to run and
send you the reminder as a floating window - that's when you'll see Office
Notifications icon in your dock, with a badge of the number of open
reminders, until you dismiss them. Having that daemon running is much less
overhead than, say, keeping Office Notifications itself open the whole time.
The whole system is far superior than that in Entourage 2001where the
Reminders appeared in the front in Entourage itself if it was open; there,
if entourage is in the background, you never saw the reminder.
If you don't ever use reminders and never want to, you can turn them off
from the Entourage menu, and also remove the daemon from Login Items in
System Prefs. But you'd be losing one of the best features in Entourage.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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