Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-13 01:42, houghi wrote:
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:29:01PM -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
With your suggestion, to achieve the same effect one
would have to have this 'signature' script running in the
background, say with cron, every minute or so dumping
the output to a text file that is the file specified as the
signature attach file in Mozilla/TB. Course, this assumes
that Mozilla/TB doesn't cache that file, in which case
even the cron example wouldn't work.
No, use a 'named pipe'. [man mkfifo]
That will run a command as if it were a file (like ~/.signature) or run a
file as if it were a command.
Maybe I am missing something. The best I can do is to make a fifo,
"mkfifo -m <permissions> fifoname", set Mozilla/TB to read that as the
signature file, then create a shell script, scriptname, and finally
periodically run
<path>/scriptname >> fifoname
Are you sure this is no different than simply running a cron to
overwrite the signature file, if Mozilla/TB caches what it reads? (Not
that it should be doing any such caching at all, but lately I've begun
to wonder about some of the things it does do :-) )
It doesn't cache the sig file. You can write a new one, put its name in
the Attach this Signature box, pretend to write a new message and the
new sig will be at the bottom on the msg.
[pruned]
Cheers.
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