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Old 07-07-2005, 02:12 PM   #1
maginotjr
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random msg in gnome-console

When I first installed Slackware was in another pc, but I remember one think I always like, everytime it starts de bash a cool randomic msg was showed... since I installed slackware here I never got this msg ... ;///


why is that?
 
Old 07-07-2005, 02:14 PM   #2
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It's a little program called fortune that comes with the bsd-games package.

Edit: Forgot an important thing, this program is called everytime you login from /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.sh that's called from /etc/profile
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