[Techtalk] .sig problems

[Poppy]

Naturally, shortly after I hit send many hours ago, I managed to fix it.
Still don't know what I did, but I unpacked the tarball again, put
everything where it belonged, and now it works!

--Poppy


On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 07:02, Poppy Casper wrote:
> I picked up a random signature generator that looks like it does
> everything I want - allows multiple lines, allows a consistant piece of
> text, etc.
> 
> Problem is, it doesn't seem to work. I've narrowed it down to two
> variables that aren't being set correctly: $homedir and $sigfile
> (I've tried writing a brief script to set these variables the same as
> below, and then printing them, and I get nothing. Either I'm not
> including something I need to be including or the getpwuid lines don't
> work)
> 
> Here is the section of the rc file that defines the variables:
> 
> #***********************************************************
> # I like to setup variables for each of the mailboxes that
> # I use in my @FILES array.  This makes the @FILES array
> # easier/faster to read and manipulate.
> 
> $username       = (getpwuid($<))[0];
> $homedir        = (getpwuid($<))[7];
> $maildir        = "$homedir/mail";
> 
> if (-e "$homedir/Maildir" && -d "$homedir/Maildir") {
>         $inbox  = "$homedir/Maildir/";
> } elsif (-e "$homedir/Mailbox") {
>         $inbox  = "$homedir/Mailbox";
> } else {
>         $inbox  = "/var/spool/mail/$username";
> }
> $sentmail       = "$maildir/sent-mail";     # Normal mail box.
> $mailbox1       = "$maildir/saved-messages.gz";   # Gzipped mail box.
> $mailbox2       =
> "$maildir/saved-messages-$current_year-$current_month/";
> 
> *********************************************************
> And the section of the script where's it's bombing:
> 
> if ($opt_t || $opt_p || ($lastreadtime > $prev_lastreadtime)) {
> 	open (SIGNATURE, "> $SIGFILE") or die "can't write $SIGFILE:$!";      
> 
> **************************************************************************
> If anyone can suggest something that I'm not seeing, I'd appreciate it.
> Been tearing my hair out, and spending more time trying to figure it out
> than I can afford to take from my other projects.
> 
> --Poppy
> 
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Poppy,				  sylph at cyber-dyne.com
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