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LinuxTaRT(1) Signature Generator LinuxTaRT(1)

LinuxTaRT - generates email signatures

tart [options]

TaRT generates email signatures based on a variety of rules and settings. It can make use of a template to allow the user to produce 100% customized signatures.

Prompt for a new tagline and enter it into the tagline database. (requires write permission on database file).
Display current signature and exit.
Display a help message and exit.
Terminate TaRT in daemon mode.
Display current status and PID (if applicable).
Display software license.
Run built-in configuration tool.
Start in daemon momde and wait <seconds> seconds between updates.
Run TaRT with the custom file specified here.
Run TaRT with the config file specified here.

The following options may be set in the configuration file. The command line parameters will override other settings.

+/-c
Enable/disable signature centering. (disabled)
+/-cust
Build signature based on template. (enabled)
+/-n
Enable/disable date in signature. (enabled)
+/-q
Enable/disable quiet mode. (disabled)
+/-sd
Enable/disable special dates. (enabled)
+/-v
Enable/disable TaRT version information in signature. (enabled)

~/.tartrc
Configuration file, the location and name of the following files can be set here.
/etc/tart.tags
Tagline database. Contains taglines, one per line.
~/.signature
File where signature is written.
~/.tart-tustom
Signature template.
~/.tartdates
List of special dates.

Specifies the users home directory

To run TaRT using default or stored settings:

tart

To run TaRT quietly:

tart +q

To run TaRT as a daemon and generate a new signature every 5 minutes:

tart --daemon 300

This man page was written for LinuxTaRT version 3.08

Mark Veinot <mveinot@gmail.com>

tartrc(5) tartdates(5) tart-custom(5)

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