Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:55:03 -0700 From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@spacehog.structured.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fortune .sigs - answered Message-ID: <33C6F207.9BBA683C@spacehog.structured.net>
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I posted a question a while back about how to put a quote from fortune in a signature file. I came up with a solution to my own question a while back and would like to share it for those who may be interested. I wrote a shell script that runs by a cron process every hour. It's something that I'm sure a lot of you can hack up in a matter of minutes, but I'm putting it here for the people who can't. Here's the script (change_sig): ------------------------------- #!/bin/sh ############################################# # # # Fortune Signature Generator # # by Justin Ashworth # # # ############################################# # Change this to your home directory HOMEDIR=/home/justin # .signature.start contains the portion of your signature # that you always want at the top. File can be nonexistent. if [ -s $HOMEDIR/.signature.start ] then cp $HOMEDIR/.signature.start $HOMEDIR/.signature fi exec `/usr/games/fortune -s /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes \ /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes2 /usr/share/games/fortune/zippy \ >> $HOMEDIR/.signature` # .signature.end contains the portion of your signature # that you always want at the bottom. File can be nonexistent. if [ -s $HOMEDIR/.signature.end ] then cat $HOMEDIR/.signature.end >> $HOMEDIR/.signature fi # This is to avoid Netscape Mail's signature length # warning. It sets the file date back so that it # looks like it wasn't modified. touch -t 9706072000 $HOMEDIR/.signature ------------------------------- The crontab entry: 0 * * * * /home/justin/bin/change_sig ------------------------------- Let me know if you like it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- Question: Is it better to abide by the rules until they're changed or help speed the change by breaking them?
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