On Sunday 29 October 2006 3:38 am, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
Well, like Steve, I also want to implement a 'dynamic' signature file, so I have followed this thread with great interest.
Mike when I took your example and edited my signature file below is what I get. Howcome as I have made the file rwx by user hylton?
Tnx --
The 'obtain signature from' setting needs to be 'output of command' not 'file'. ??? Scott, I have created a file called signature and placed it in my home
Scott Leighton wrote: directory. In that file I have the exact text as appears on my signature. As this is my first trial at shell scripting I made the files permissions 764 so that the comands I enetered could be executed. How come I am seeing the 'echo' and 'uptime' in the script, and how can I get this file contents to be executed, remove the # before !/bin/bash? Help a scripting newbie :) plse. PS: I am using Messenger from Mozilla 1.7.2. Tnx -- #!/bin/bash echo "=================================================================" echo "Currently using unpatched SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2" echo "Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org" uptime echo "================================================================="