I searched through the site and found one person trying to do something similar to this but the discussion didn't really apply. What I'm trying to do is pull a funny quote from a file of quotes by a user and say it when they join a channel. I use an external call to fortune to actually grab the quote. Everything works great so far, except that the script only seems to run every other time a user joins (1st, 3rd, 5th...). Does anyone see something I don't that may be causing this? If so, what?

use strict;
use vars qw($NAME $VERSION %IRSSI);
use Irssi qw(command_bind signal_add_first);

$VERSION = "1.03";
%IRSSI = (
    authors     => "Stuart Freeman",
    contact     => "stuart\@tyro.homelinux.com",
    name        => "greet",
    description => "Greets your friends with a message from a file nam
+ed after them.",
    license     => "GPL"
                        );
sub greet ($server, $channel,  $nick, $address)
{
        my ($server, $channel, $nick, $address) = @_;
        $address =~ s/\~(.*)\@.*/$1/;
        my $filename = glob( "~/.quotes/$address");
        if (-r $filename)
        {
                my @quote=split(/\n/,`/usr/games/fortune $filename`);
                foreach my $quote (@quote)
                {
                        $server->command('msg '.$channel.' '.$nick.'> 
+'.$quote);
                }
        }
}
signal_add_first 'message join' => 'greet';

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