From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 8 13:49:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17325 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 13:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17319 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 13:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id PAA00393; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:48:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199706082048.PAA00393@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Executable signature? To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:48:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3399B0E9.DD16F91A@spacehog.structured.net> from Justin Ashworth at "Jun 7, 97 07:05:13 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Justin Ashworth said: > Is it possible to create an executable signature? I'd like to tag a quip > from /usr/games/fortune onto my signature after my name. I've tried > writing a .signature with a shebang (#!) line in PERL and sh to no > avail. Any ideas? > > Thanks! I do that. Well, not exactly. What you want is a named pipe. They're pretty easy to use. You'll have a daemon running in the background, writting to the pipe (.signature) and your mail program reads from it as normal. -- The sun was shining on the sea, He did his very best to make Shining with all his might: The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night --Lewis Carroll