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01-26-2005

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Im in graduate school in Software Engineering. We use an email repository system built by the dean of our department that is used for students to submit their programming assignments to the instructor. The system is implemented using C shell scripts. The downfall of the system is that the student must be at school, logged in to their unix account in order to submit their program to the instructor.

I'm trying to find a way that will enable students to email their program to the instructor from home using their hotmail, yahoo, or any other email system so that they do not need to be at school to submit their programs. I'm trying to accomplish this by having a script run automatically when an email is received on the instructors unix email account. The script will check the first word of the subject line, if the first word is "XSsubmit" then I want to save all of the attachments to a directory (the files must be in the directory for the submit command to submit the files), then forward the entire subject line to a command prompt and run the command. Then this will submit the files to the instructors submission repository.

This is where my problem comes in. I need to get the attachments saved to the directory automatically, and then I need to get the subject field to a command prompt to invoke the submit script but have no idea how to.

I was going through some of the forum questions and saw that you are not supposed to post homework questions. This is not a homework assignment that I'm doing, its an entire project that I am working on that I'm trying to actually get into production.

Any help, pointing in the right direction like a book, website, anything would be great.

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TURNIN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 TURNIN(1)

NAME

       turnin - submit assignments to be graded

SYNOPSYS

       turnin [ OPTIONS ] -c [ course-name ] files

DESCRIPTION

       Submits assignments to be graded. We submit to the default project if it is not specified as an option.

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

       -c, --course
	      Sets the course to which we'll submit our assignments.

       files  A  list  of  files we wish to submit. They will be compressed using tar(1) and gzip(1) formats before being copied to the submission
	      directory.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Print turnin's version

       -h, --help
	      Print a help message

       -l, --list
	      Prints a list of projects, along with whether or not they are enabled and shows which project is the default project.

       -p, --project
	      Sets the project to which we'll submit our assignments.

       -C, --config
	      Path to an alternate configuration file

       -v, --verbose
	      Prints a list of submitted files once they have been submitted.

       -k, --keyid
	      Cryptographically signs an assignment using gpg(1)

       -w, --legal
	      Print warranty and license information.

EXAMPLES

       turnin -c world-cheeses --list
	      List the projects in the course world-cheeses.

       turnin -c world-cheeses stilton-recipe
	      Submit the file stilton-recipe to the default project in the course world-cheeses.

       turnin -c world-cheeses -p stilton stilton-recipe
	      Submit the file stilton-recipe to the project stilton in the course world-cheeses.

FILES

       /etc/turnin-ng.cf ~/.turnin-ng/submissions

SEE ALSO

       turnincfg(1)

       The full documentation for turnin is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and turnin programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info turnin-ng

       should give you access to the complete manual.

AUTHOR

       Turnin-NG  and  this  manpage were written by Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca@kubuntu.org> in the summer of 2009 and are still actively maintained.
       Turnin-NG is a replacement for the 'project' and 'turnin' commands written in 1990 for the SPARC architecture by an unknown author.

       Both Turnin-NG and this manpage are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any  later
       version.

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