Change an Alarm Reminder

You use the alarm –edit command to change the frequency of alarm notifications. The alarm must have been acknowledged before you can modify the reminder. If an alarm has not already been acknowledged, you can set the notification frequency when you acknowledge the alarm.

  1. From the command prompt, edit the alarm notification frequency.
    alarm --edit id --remind_every period --remind_every_unit minutes|hour|days
    There is no output or acknowledgement of this change.
  2. View the current notifications for a particular alarm.
    alarm --info id

The following example shows the command to modify the notification of alarm ID 9 to be tripped every four hours.

$ alarm --edit 9 --remind_every 4 --remind_every_unit hours