Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:34 am, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:- > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:19, Charlie wrote: > > > Thanks ... I'll send you a copy of it off list (however, I suspect it's > > > a PEBKAC thing, as I tried to compile a .dat via strfile with just a > > > few taglines, and ended

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:19, Charlie wrote: > > Thanks ... I'll send you a copy of it off list (however, I suspect it's > > a PEBKAC thing, as I tried to compile a .dat via strfile with just a few > > taglines, and ended up with the same thing ... one large concatenated > > tagline). > > I haven'

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:59 am, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:- > On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:39, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > > I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I > > > can still only use others' for

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:39, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can > > still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my > > own via the strfile command h

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can > still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my > own via the strfile command have failed, yielding just one big file > instead of indi

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Chuck Mattsen wrote: Resurrecting an old thread here ... On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 14:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: Here's a slightly different way to get the "running Mandrake..." blah blah: #bin bash echo "Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org" echo `cat /etc/mandr

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
What I want to know is can you add something to the code of your sig.txt at I guess "footerfile=" that will effectively do the same as this: > > #bin bash > > echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`" -- John Willby Oxon GLASS rep Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chris
On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:51 pm, skidley wrote: > > If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? > > If so, why not use a little perl script called "makesig.pl" If you > > want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. > > I am interested in makesig.pl so I

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread skidley
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:47:40PM -0600, Chris wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: > > > try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: > > > #bin bash > > > echo -e "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 16:47, Chris wrote: > If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? If > so, why not use a little perl script called "makesig.pl" If you want it > I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. I'll Google it and take a look, thanks. I managed t

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: > > try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: > > #bin bash > > echo -e "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN" > > \\n echo -e "Registered Linux User #346519"

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: > try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: > #bin bash > echo -e "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN" \\n > echo -e "Registered Linux User #346519" \\n > echo -e `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`"

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:38:47 -0700 Glenn disseminated the following: > > Mail User Agent. In your case, Thunderbird. > > I think I've been hanging around here too much. Used to be I'd never use an > acronym like MUA MDA, MTA, MUA, SMTP, IMAP, christ, I don't even speak inglish ennymore... --

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 15:29, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:49:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) > > Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: > > OK What's an MUA. > > Mail User Agent. In your case, Thunderbird. I think I've been hanging around here too much. Used to be I'd never

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 13:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > Here's a slightly different way to get the "running Mandrake..." blah blah: > > #bin bash > echo "Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org"; > echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`" > echo `uptime` > ec

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:49:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: > OK What's an MUA. Mail User Agent. In your case, Thunderbird. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 17:27:48 up 16 days, 5:13, 4 u

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 21 February 2004 8:37 am, Glenn wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:12, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > I see some of you in your signature files have a line that says how > > log your machine has been running since the last boot. > > > > How do

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
> What you are seeing is a linux program called "uptime" If you open a > terminal and type uptime you will see those lines. I see you are using > Thunderbird for email, I have no experience with thundebird so maybe > someone else can help you here. AFAIK there is no way how to tell TB that your