Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [attribution lost] >> Hi I want to add a code to my signature if is there any one who knows how >> I can do it please tell me for example I want to attach todays date or >> random test to my signature .. > >hehe - i had this idea, too. >i don't know, if there is a "legitimate" way do auto-run a script, which >outputs a .sig directly to pine, but there are some workarounds: >basic idea: a script, which completely rewrites the ~/.sig when run. >you can tell cron to run it daily or hourly or whenever. >another nice idea is to write a wrapper for pine (or whatever mailer). >this wrapper would first run the sig-modificator (or do the actions >itself) and then exec the real mailer.
This is a fairly common thing to want to do. One good way is to make your editor a script that rewrites your ~/.signature and then invokes your real editor. Another possibility is to make ~/.signature a FIFO (named pipe, see 'man mkfifo'), but last time I tried doing this with pine it didn't seem to work. Some programs will let you set the path to your signature file to be something like '|/path/to/signature-program', but I don't know if pine will let you do this. You might want to have a look at some of the Debian packages which deal with random signatures, like signify and sigrot. There used to be ones which advertised themselves as using named pipes (gensig?), but I can't find them at the moment. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
