Welcome to Random

=====Best Evar===== * The goal of this project is to in a very round about way post on the the great interwebs a random number every day at 4:58. =====Procedure===== * The first step is going to the writing of a C program that will generate a random number. * Step number 2 will involve writing a shell script to run the C program, print out all of the necessary html tags and include the randomly generated number * Step 3 involves the writing of another shell script to run the shell script and save * The last step is to set up a cron job that will run the second shell script at 4:58 every day =====Necessary Knowledge===== * Shell scripting * HTML * commands * C programming =====Stuff I Used===== * This is the C program


#include

int main()

{

srand(time(NULL));
	printf("%d ", (rand() %  1200));

return(0);

}

* This is the first shell script


/home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberGen > /home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumber


echo ""
echo "	"
echo "		Welcome to Random"
echo "	"
echo "	"
echo "  "
echo "  This is the random number of the day: `cat RndNumber`"
echo ""
echo ""

* This is the second shell script


/home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberScript > /home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberPage.html

=====Attributes===== * Scripting * Commands * Files and Directories * The Unix Shell * The Unix Development Environment * Text processing * Job Control & Multitasking =====Final Thinkings===== * A fun project only a little bit of a pain to get cron to find everything properly