Easy Auto Gen quote's for email signature

[marcus0263]

Personally I love this -

1) Crack open a text editor, my favorite is vi
2) Here's a copy of my bash script -

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#!/bin/bash
echo `/usr/bin/fortune -n 150 -s -e politics familyguy homer dubya calvin` | cat /home/username/.signature.tag - > /home/username/.signature

3) Save as something like
email-sig.sh

4) Make it executable

5) Edit /etc/crontab

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#min    hour   date     mon     wkday   command
*/5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/sbin/email-sig.sh

Then point your email client to your signature, which in my case is /home/username/.signature

To check the options for fortune just hit the man page -

Cheers

[antiquexray]

4) Make it executable

Question...how does one make a file executable?

[Fragadelic]

chmod a+x filename

This will make it executable for everyone.

[marcus0263]

4) Make it executable

Question...how does one make a file executable?

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chmod 755 filename.sh

Here's a quick reference chart, actually doing it by the numbers is the easiest. Once you get used to it it's a snap.

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Number     Read (R)     Write (W)     Execute (X)
0                      No           No                No
1                      No           No                Yes
2                      No           Yes               No
3                      No           Yes               Yes
4                     Yes           No                 No
5                     Yes           No                 Yes
6                     Yes           Yes                No
7                      Yes           Yes                Yes

So, for example:

777 is the same as rwxrwxrwx

755 is the same as rwxr-xr-x

666 is the same as rw-rw-rw-

744 is the same as rwxr--r--

[clem]

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