[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > while :; do date > smtpgreeting.new && mv smtpgreeting smtpgreeting.net; sleep 1 ;
>done &
I might be not ``getting'' it, but for the sake of completeness,
Russell, I suppose you meant:
while :; do date > smtpgreeting.new && mv smtpgreeting.new smtpgreeting ; sleep 1 ;
done &
> Stefan: your solution is probably quite portable, but not reliable: it can
> cause hanging qmail-smtpd's when 2 of 'm try to read the FIFO at the same
> time.
I see.
Besides: why would anyone want to do this in the first place ..?
It's the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol after all (and no, multiline
fortunes do _not_ work ;).
Stefan
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