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#! rnews 1568 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!peerfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.eden.com!interval.net!arlut.utexas.edu!usenet From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Finger command to trigger mail download... Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:04:30 -0600 Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 24 Message-ID: <329C82AD.41C6@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <329c6a56.179627170@news.charm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: challenger.arlut.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) To: snowdog@charm.net Sean Rolinson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am wondering if anyone has heard of a finger command to trigger > email download, and how to accomplish such a task. > > One of our customers is looking to finger an address at our location > and that finger would then cause a program to locally be run (like > sendmail -qRblah) that would deliver mail. I am wondering if such a > beast already exists and where I might find it. > > Any info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated... > > TIA... > > Sean Rolinson > snowdog@charm.net GNU's finger allows you to run a shell script when fingering a specific user :) You might look into that. Ian Fink fink@arlut.utexas.edu