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first of all sorry for the extremely silly question.
using slack i get used to read this message. is it possible to have it printed on the screen just after the login? how?
thanks and i beg your pardon
in my /etc/motd there's nothing but the very standard welcome message.
on the other hand i've nor a folder /profile.d, nor a file called bsd-games-login-fortune.sh
where do you want to show the message? what are you talking about: linux login or dedi-game-server-login?
in the case of normal linux login, edit /etc/motd!
Don't know if this is a SuSE speciality, but the /etc/motd to be called by login is defined in /etc/login.def (managed by pwdutils).
Should be set like this:
Linux foo 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are
freely redistributable; the exact distribution terms for each program
are described in the individual file in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
what i'm tring to do is set the system in order to print a randon massege at the linux login.
hmmm, the default /etc/motdīs of my last installed boxes were empty.
donīt know whats with the current debian version !?!
under FC all you have to do is: edit the empty motd-file, switch to another console and login...
so what happens, when you edit this file under your debian?
overlord73 i still can't understand what you actually mean with edit. i can open the motd file but i still don't know what to do in it. should i delete the actual contents, maybe?
/etc/motd is just a textfile that is displayed on login. So if you want it to change on each login, you will need to find a program that does this job (I don't know any, sorry), or change (edit) it yourself each time.
That's default on Slack, and it uses a program called fortune to display this. Try this:
apt-get fortune-mod
Not sure if you'll have to modify anything to get it to run on each logon, though - maybe read the man pages once it's installed....
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