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Old 03-18-2005, 03:53 PM   #1
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those quotes after textmode-login

Slackware displays a random quote after I login in textmode. Where are those quotes stored?

Thanks!
 
Old 03-18-2005, 06:12 PM   #2
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The program is called fortune, and the files are in /usr/share/games/fortunes .. enjoy.
 
Old 03-18-2005, 06:16 PM   #3
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Pretty cool!

Hum, I renamed the files "fortunes" and "fortunes.dat" to back them up and made my own file "fortunes" with a couple of quotes in it and the dat-file with strfile -r... but somehow fortunes seems to use all of the files from the folder /usr/share/games/fortune to pick it's quotes from. Is there a way to tell it to use only one of them?
 
Old 03-18-2005, 06:21 PM   #4
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man fortune

If you run fortune with a filename as parameter, it will only use fortunes from that file.
 
Old 03-18-2005, 07:34 PM   #5
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It works fine when I run it manually, but after login it seems to run with some parameter making it use all the files in /usr/share/games/fortunes/ - I already tried moving all the files except for the one I want to use to a backup-folder but it came up with an error like "cannot open /usr/share/games/fortunes/bla"

I already searched through almost every single file in /etc manually to find the place where fortune is auto-run after login, but I cannot find it...
 
Old 03-19-2005, 06:39 AM   #6
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/etc/profile.d/
 
Old 03-19-2005, 07:42 AM   #7
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Awesome, theres it! Thanks...
 
  


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