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? > > -- > . --- > |o_o | > |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird!!!! > // \ \ Use Linux!!!! > (| | ) > /'\_ _/`\ > \___)=(___/ > ___________________________________________________ > > "Software is like sex: It's better when it's free." > --- Linus Torvalds > Chad Young > Registered Linux User #195191 > @ http://counter.li.org > > > 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 Mandrake 8.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:05pm up 1:41, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.09
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