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 :-) ) Still, this is something that should be integral to the useragent, not something that has to be faked in any way, particularly in such a non-trivial way. I doubt such options are even open to Windows users. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
