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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > How might I write a script that asks someone to
> > type in their login name
>
> echo "Type in your login name"
> read answer
>
> > and replaces another string with that in a file?
>
> cat file | sed -e /another string/$answer/ > new-file
>
> > it should also write my filter to their home directory
>
> You can find the name of their home directory by parsing
> /etc/passwd.  Something like this:
> ------------------------------------------
> cat /etc/passwd|grep ^username|cut -d: -f6
> ------------------------------------------

I have proposed this to the people at my list and asked them to make any 
changes suitable to our system.  If the user is running the script from 
their own directory the script could simply copy the file from my 
directory to theirs and change the login.

What I want to do is replace keesan with their login name (I was not very 
clear about this).  Would the following do that if run from the user's own 
directory?

cat ~keesan/procmailrc.sample | sed -e /keesan/`whoami`/ > .procmailrc

cat ~keesan/.forward > .forward

How would I append to existing .procmailrc and .forward instead of 
replacing/creating them?

To give people the choice of dumping spam with three or more spamassassin 
points, or saving it to a spam folder, I could write two separate scripts 
to copy two separate .procmailrc choices.

We lost the staff member who was going to write something up because he 
got tired of the bickering among other members.  The person who helped me 
with .procmailrc spam filter resigned at the same time.  This was shortly 
after the two bickering members quit. (They had also quit before and asked 
to come back.)  Are all volunteer organizations this ridiculous?

 >
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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