Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Dave Ashmore wrote:
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a
normal install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Chris"
echo "Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org";
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo "Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)"
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
/usr/games/fortune
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo "Live - Classic Rock - From
Virgin Radio UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print
$2}' )"
fi
If using Kmail you can under "Settings > configure Kmail > identies
> signature" then select "Obtain signature text from Output of
Command. For instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn
more about fortune from "man fortune"
HTH
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like
you suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like
this every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 * * * * root /home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 * * * * root /home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 * * * * root /home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 * * * * root /home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
A better way would be to set EDITOR to your farerate text editor, and
run "crontab -e" as your normal user. (If you have crontab enabled for
normal users - depends on security.) Add.
0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/djash/sig-pubmail > .home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Save, and exit.
The biggest drawback with the way you have done it is that the script
is run as root. Running a script that a user can modify as root is a
BIG security risk!
Also, the signiture file will be owned by root, instead of djash.
Mikkel
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I will do what you suggested.
How do I set editor to nano?
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Regards
Dave Ashmore
MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1
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