Hi Rosemary:
The program you want is fortune-mod. It's available on the install
disks from Mandrake. I run 10.1. Install that and then create a
text file with your list of quotes ...
In your fave text editor, create a file called "sig" or "quotes" or
whatever ya want & enter the following:
%
Quote 1 ... %
Quote 2 ...
And so on. The quotes you want to enter just need to be separated by
the "%" symbol.
To make this file something that the fortune program can work with,
run the command that Josenildo provided earlier in this thread:
strfile /path/to/your/file
I run this as root, which may or may not be necessary ... or
warranted. :) If everything is Ok, the above command will provide
output like the following:
"sig.dat created"
There were xx strings.
Longest string: xx bytes
Shortest string: xx bytes
Now, as to how to get your mail program to work with all this: I
don't know how to do it in Thunderbird, but I would assume it's
similar to KMail which goes like this:
Settings - Configure KMail
Under Identities, highlight the email address you want to utilize
fortune and click "modify" ... Under the signature tab check the box
to "enable signature." Select "output from command" where it asks
where to obtain signature text from ... Finally, where it asks you to
specify command enter "fortune /path/to/your/quote/file" (without
quotes).
Hopefully Thunderbird is setup similarly to Kmail ... If not, I'm
sure someone will be able to help you ...
If memory serves, that's all ya need to do to get your random
signature working. Hope that helps ... :)
Adam
Hi Adam
Thanks for those detailed instructions - always good for a newbie like
me :-). I have a signature file which I use for Tbird so will alter
it as suggested.
Thanks
Rosemary --
As you're using TBird and it doesn't accept scripts as Kmail or Evo,
you'll have to do the following in order to get it working:
1. as it seems you already have a script, just make sure you know the
right path to it
2. create an empty file ( mine's called sigout ) and save it
3. create another file (mine's called kronus), paste the info below and
change the paths as necessary
*/2 * * * * /home/rosemary/path/to/your/script >
/home/rosemary/path/to/the/sigout file
4. save it and issue the following command as user
$ crontab kronus
That is, if you saved it with that name.
It means that 'cron' will run your script every 2 minutes and redirect
its output to the sigout file.
Then, in Thunderbird (Edit, Account Settings) tell it to attach the
sigout file.
I hope that's not too complicated.
Thanks should go to Chris Pollock and Margot.
Thanks guys, but I am feeling quite stupid about this as have not been
able to work it out. Do I put the actual quotes into the script?
Thanks
--
Rosemary
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