On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > <snip,snip,snip> > > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than > > > your perl script? > > > > hadn't come up with that concept yet, no. i had condered using > > Creating a new fortune database is easy. Have a look at the man pages > for fortune(6) an unstr - I added some (lame) jokes to my fortunes > that way.
karl and romain -- this indeed looks easy. but it feels like i'll be adding comments and tips daily if not hourly, for a while at least. maybe when it calms down a bit, i'll hammer it into a fortune database. > By the way: I'm looking at becoming a debian maintainer - this looks like > it could be a nice (simple) Debian package to start with. Let me know if > you want it packaged for Debian. (I know... Lots of other people ar bound > to want to do the same thing) cool! > > it in the same fashion, tho -- maybe as a /etc/motd munger via > > crontab, for example. i guess it's a simple matter to add a new > > fortune-like database, hmm? i wonder if it'd be difficult to > > add new tips to the end... > > If you use fortune, then adding the relevant files in > /usr/share/games/fortunes (or /usr/local/share/games/fortunes) will > do the trick. No need to modify existing files. i only meant, when i fortune-ify a set of 40 tips, and then want to add seven more... but even then it doesn't sound too difficult. > <snip,snip,snip> > > > what i had considered, tho, is rube-goldberg-ing a web page allowing > > anyone to add tips (with heavy regex behind to scenes to check for > > duplication) of their own, and then offer a random tip via a finger-like > > service on a publicly-accessible port, to the community at large. > > > > BTW -- > > > > i got this idea from the postgresql "pg-general" mailing list; they > > append a random tip to each outgoing message. (i've only seen five > > distinct tips, which ain't too impressive, but the concept is gold.) > > Sounds like a signify to me :-) hey, have i been slighted? :) what's a signify? i'm not familiar with its use as a noun. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get install <debian-only>" packages if possible. (Also check out the "alien" package if you must.) ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/
