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Old 03-11-2005, 10:07 AM   #1
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computer talks to me :P HELP

Why everytime I boot or open a terminal is my comp spitting out "quotes" from famous people?? And please... please tell me how to turn this foolishness off.. thanks in advance..

btw: I am new to slackware.. had gentoo installed for a almost a year.. now thought I would try slackware.. I must say I like it better than gentoo so far
 
Old 03-11-2005, 10:24 AM   #2
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the program is called fortune.

If you don't like it as much as it seems, just remove it via pkgtool

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Old 03-11-2005, 10:49 AM   #3
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Fortune is the program, but thats not what is listed under pkgtool. Fortune is a part of the bsd-games package so you'll want to remove bsd-games...
 
Old 03-11-2005, 11:13 AM   #4
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forgot that part - thanks for the correction
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Old 03-11-2005, 11:15 AM   #5
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You can disable them without remove the package, with :
chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games*
 
Old 03-11-2005, 11:23 AM   #6
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thanks guys.. I did the command in the last reply.. worked great

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chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune*
 
  


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