fortune in a sig

johnh10000 · 03-23-2010, 06:06 PM

hi daft i know, but here goes.

how do i do something like this

fortune >> sig

but I want the output at the bottom.

using ubuntu karmic, so bash is fav

my sig at the mo is

Code:

John "Hammie" Hamlin
Newport, South Wales
http://tux.isa-geek.org
_______________________
                                  (\ /)
                                  (O.o)
                                  (> <)
This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to
world domination.
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No trees were harmed by the sending of this email although, 
several electrons were severely inconvenienced!!!!!!

frieza · 03-23-2010, 06:36 PM

forum sig? email sig? what kind of sig?

johnh10000 · 03-23-2010, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frieza

forum sig? email sig? what kind of sig?

OH email sig primarily, but if there are ways to do it for a forum sig interested.

frieza · 03-23-2010, 06:52 PM

both of the folowing options would need to use cron

for an email sig, assuming the email uses file sig you would configure a cron job
(here is some documentation on how to configure cron https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto)
to run
fortune >> sig

cron can be configured by default to do this daily, hourly, weekly, or monthly
you can also configure cron with webmin
http://www.webmin.com/ (a good web based tool for configuring various aspects of a linux box, useful for those who have limited experience manually editing config files)
note programs like webmin aren't a substitute for knowing how to manually edit the config files but a helper for common tasks nonetheless

forum sig? probably not unless you were hosting the forum locally on your box
well, theoretically possible but you would probably have to program something to authenticate yourself onto the forum, then send the proper POST values to the proper script based on the output of the command fortune and then be run by cron, possible but a lot of work especially for a novice programmer
cURL might be able to do it but i've never tried doing it and you'd still need either a php script or a shell script or a perl script to execute cURL with the proper options

johnh10000 · 03-23-2010, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frieza

both of the folowing options would need to use cron

for an email sig, assuming the email uses file sig you would configure a cron job
(here is some documentation on how to configure cron https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto)
to run
fortune >> sig

are this is the bit i'm having hassels with. how do make it stick it on the bottom. to use my present sig, underneith the no trees, were hurt bit.

Quote:

cron can be configured by default to do this daily, hourly, weekly, or monthly
you can also configure cron with webmin
http://www.webmin.com/ (a good web based tool for configuring various aspects of a linux box, useful for those who have limited experience manually editing config files)
note programs like webmin aren't a substitute for knowing how to manually edit the config files but a helper for common tasks nonetheless

haven't seen cron in webmin. will check. i know how to deal with cron though!

Quote:

forum sig? probably not unless you were hosting the forum locally on your box
well, theoretically possible but you would probably have to program something to authenticate yourself onto the forum, then send the proper POST values to the proper script based on the output of the command fortune and then be run by cron, possible but a lot of work especially for a novice programmer

well i thought that, anyway.

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cURL might be able to do it but i've never tried doing it and you'd still need either a php script or a shell script or a perl script to execute cURL with the proper options

curl, hmmm must look at that didn't know curl could upload as well as d/l