On 木, 2002-03-14 at 10:56, Mark Neill wrote: > On 14 Mar 2002, Rob Hudson wrote: > > > * Is there any way of having a signature file be an executable > > > instead of flat text? > > > > I'd like to know this too. :) > > My hack for doing this kind of thing is to have my sig file be a named > pipe. Out of cron, every N minutes, read the pipe to empty it, then run > your executable to refill it. > > To do this right, you'll need a little daemon program that sits on the > pipe and watches for something to read from it, then refills it after the > other program closes. Not trivial, but not too difficult to do.
I use a little program by Ian Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> called signature, a dynamic signature generator for e-mail and news, for this. It's very easy to set up and use. Try it: http://www.caliban.org/linux_signature.html -- Stuart Luppescu -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Chicago -=- CCSR 才文と智奈美の父 -=- Kernel 2.4.14-xfs I attribute my success to intelligence, guts, determination, honesty, ambition, and having enough money to buy people with those qualities.
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