[plug] Linux uptime

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Patrick Tehvand wrote:

> I have seen some people with their boxen uptimes in their signatures.
> anyone car to let me in on the script secret?

The "secret", I believe, is to use a named pipe for your .signature file,
and a daemon script with unbuffered writing to the pipe.

 Or you could do it the boring way with a cron job.

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