Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 22:31:13 +0000 From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@spacehog.structured.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Executable signature? Message-ID: <339B32B1.EC14BB89@spacehog.structured.net> References: <199706082048.PAA00393@horton.iaces.com>
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Paul T. Root wrote: > > 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. I've never written a daemon before. Can you recommend any good online sources for this type of programming or just give me some source code to work from? BTW, I'm using a cron job right now that changes my sig hourly. Thanks.... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- Go climb a gravity well!
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