Subj : Re: Good place for mods?
To   : Alpha #4
From : Xenos #1@60.Wwivnet
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 02:50 pm


On Friday, November 06, 2020 at 02:00, Alpha wrote:

A>RE: Re: Good place for mods?
A>BY: The Godfather (11:1/227)@8304.WWIVnet-FTN
A>
A>
A>TG> The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to launch a batch 
A>TG> every 
A>TG> time a user logs in, to update ANSI's for time/date sensitive mods
A>TG> as 
A>TG> the corona virus tracker.  Apam showed me how to use curl to pull 
A>TG> Amiga 
A>TG> version of the mods ANSI, which I display in the bulletin section0
A>TG> (Bulletin 
A>TG> 0).  However, at the moment I'm running the curl command as a myst
A>TG> hourly 
A>TG> event, and having the batch file of that event, copy it over.  It 
A>TG> be 
A>TG> nice to have it run the batch file at login.  
A>
A>Yeah, I'm running a cron for my news ansi, but would prefer to run it on 
A>Logon... Can I launch an .sh file from a .bas file lol

Yes. You can define an .sh file to run in wwiv.ini under the LOGON_CMD setting.

As an example, on Aliens, I have this:

LOGON_CMD = /home/bbs/logon.sh


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