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Article #47963Re: How do I do thins
From: David Stanaway
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <36816CD2.6EDC3E39@aljan.com.au>, Stephen Schwetz wrote: >How Do I get my linux box to insert this into my netscape signature file >and keep it updated... I Take it that I need to use cron and echo the >output of uptime somehow but how do I do it? > >> My Computer is powered by GNU-LINUX, and has been > > up 2 days 1 hour 22 minutes > When I finally get a few days of free time, I will get around to writing a program that is run in the background from your login scripts that writes to a fifo in the place of .signature Basically it will open the fifo for writing, and write a file to the fifo. Then close it (The reader sees this as the end of the file) then write to it again. This could probably even be done using a shell script. I may have to try both : ). David Stanaway.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d3910aa2e37a235 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: dstanawa@grudge.debian (David Stanaway) Subject: Re: How do I do thins Date: 1998/12/25 Message-ID: <slrn77og6v.bb.dstanawa@grudge.debian> X-Deja-AN: 425722455 References: <36816CD2.6EDC3E39@aljan.com.au> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.usyd.edu.au X-Trace: metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au 914592895 29043 129.78.58.78 (25 Dec 1998 13:34:55 GMT) Organization: The University of Sydney, Australia User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.3 (UNIX) Reply-To: dstanawa@mail.usyd.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Dec 1998 13:34:55 GMT Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux