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Old 01-05-2005, 05:57 AM   #1
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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]).

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Old 01-05-2005, 06:07 AM   #2
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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
 
Old 01-05-2005, 06:37 AM   #3
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Thank you for the answer.

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Originally posted by Cedrik
to disable it just chmod -x these files
No, I actually really like these epigrams

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Old 01-05-2005, 10:26 AM   #4
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I, too, like this feature. Some of them are quite amusing and gives Slack that
little-something-different from the other distros.
 
Old 01-05-2005, 02:39 PM   #5
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i like them also, except when i got "you will be dead within the year"
that one was kind of depressing.
 
Old 01-05-2005, 05:18 PM   #6
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Smile

I once get one on first installation on an old laptop that said
Quote:
Your keyboard is toast!
. . .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;

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Old 01-05-2005, 05:39 PM   #7
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Originally posted by Linuxrat
I, too, like this feature. Some of them are quite amusing and gives Slack that
little-something-different from the other distros.
agreed. check out the man page, there's some cool options, like searching for keywords, filtering potentially offensive fortunes, etc.
 
  


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