-# the guts of the crontab would go here. it would spell out some time or times for the command to be executed.
-# it's actually okay to have a really long command with multiple sub-commands; just put it inside parentheses to group
-# a bunch of commands together. there are many examples of doing this in the other files.
-# also, it's often important to send the output someplace. /dev/null works if you don't ever want to see it, but i
-# prefer to write log files in the /tmp directory which include the user name defined above.
+# the guts of the crontab would follow below. this usually is a set of valid
+# crontab lines that spell the time or times for commands to be executed. my
+# crontabs usually have from 3 to 8 entries because i tend to atomicize the
+# tasks, rather than writing big complicated multi-purpose scripts. not saying
+# that's always better, it's just how i roll (my crontabs)...
+#
+# also, it is fine to have a really long command with multiple sub-commands;
+# just put it inside parentheses to group a bunch of commands together. there
+# are many examples of doing this in the other crontab examples in this folder.
+#
+# further, it's often important to send the output from the cron job to an
+# output location. doing this keeps cron from sending you a lot of emails
+# with cron job output on some systems. you can use the normal output
+# redirection operators to do this (e.g. '>', '2>', '&>', '>>' and '&>>').
+# /dev/null works as an output target if you don't ever want to see the
+# results from your cron jobs. i usually prefer to write log files in the /tmp
+# directory with the ${USER} variable in the file name. here's an example of
+# a real command with output that will *append* both output and error streams
+# ('&>>') to an output file. if your output can be huge, then you may want to
+# overwrite the output file instead ('&>').
+
+# runs every minute and recreates a fortune for thunderbird signature.
+# a lot of the detail below is to get the feisty meow environment loaded for
+# the command.
+* * * * * (export LIGHTWEIGHT_INIT=true; source $HOME/feisty_meow/scripts/core/launch_feisty_meow.sh; perl $HOME/feisty_meow/scripts/text/new_sig.pl) &>>/tmp/${USER}-cron-nechung_fortune.log
+