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
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