Slackware MOTD
 

Hello,

I tried to figure it out for some time, but simply couldn't find an answer: Where do Slackware's nice MOTD come from?
With motd I do not mean /etc/motd, but those nice quotations and proverbs that you get when you enter a login shell (try "su -" [With the minus-sign]).

cccc828

This is the BSD program 'fortune'

Look at:
/etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.csh
/etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.sh

to disable it just chmod -x these files

Thank you for the answer.

No, I actually really like these epigrams :)

cccc828

I, too, like this feature. Some of them are quite amusing and gives Slack that
little-something-different from the other distros.

i like them also, except when i got "you will be dead within the year"
that one was kind of depressing.

I once get one on first installation on an old laptop that said . . .and it was! Locked up solid!

Turned out that the BIOS had a problem and needed an append to lilo.conf to avoid the touchpad from locking up the mackine.

I'll never understand to this day how Slackware knew! ;)

dennisk;

:) agreed. check out the man page, there's some cool options, like searching for keywords, filtering potentially offensive fortunes, etc.