On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:48:34 -0400 (AST)
skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed frantically in their message:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:35 pm, Scott wrote:
> > > Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email
> > > messages?
> >
> >     You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable
> > executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime.  I do this with kmail by making my sig
> > executable and placing   /usr/games/fortune  in it as the last line. So
> > while it probly varies with email clients, it should be easy to do.
> >
> >   my sig:
> > echo  ____Tom Brinkman _________________ South Texas, USA_____
> > echo
> > /usr/games/fortune
> >
> >     FWIW, I'm just playin with it right now since GC just made many more
> > fortune db's available on his website
> >          http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/
> >
> I use pine and I can't seem to get it to work in my signature, I added
> /usr/games/fortune and chmod +x the .signature, I even added echo
> to each line thinking i may need that. Does anyone use pine and have exec
> commands in .signature?
> 
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> 
skidley,

try this one. check the attached file. it's a little script that I've been using to 
place my uptime and other thoughts in a little file that my client then reads and uses 
for a signature line.

-- 
Mark

Registered Linux User 182496
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