Mischa Diehm wrote: > Hi, > > well don't know if interesting but once in a while i want to set me a > alarm in shell scripts or just in the current shell so i use: > > trap 'echo PIZZA! | write mischa ttyp4' 14; sleep 10 && kill -14 $$ & > > or sth. like it... On FreeBSD 'leave(1)' could be your friend for that.