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Old 02-11-2005, 10:58 AM   #1
Unp
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Quotes

I'm running Slack 10.1, and I remember in the older verion of slackware when you booted into aterm, term, or whatever terminal you used you would get a random quote, is there anyway to turn that back on in 10.1?
 
Old 02-11-2005, 11:43 AM   #2
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well...it works here....
( that is with kde )
what do you get whet you type " $fortune "

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Old 02-11-2005, 12:06 PM   #3
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assuming you use bash as your shell, just add "fortune -a" to your ~/.bashrc.
 
Old 02-11-2005, 12:12 PM   #4
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Originally posted by egag
well...it works here....
( that is with kde )
what do you get whet you type " $fortune "

egag
root@unplugthebox:~# $fortune
root@unplugthebox:~#


and for for cccc

root@unplugthebox:~# cat .bashrc && bash
fortune -a
bash: fortune: command not found
root@unplugthebox:~#


now that i know the name of the program i think i can take it from here, thanks guys, I guess it's because i chose not to install games so it didnt install it ;x
Last edited by Unp; 02-11-2005 at 12:14 PM.
 
Old 02-11-2005, 12:21 PM   #5
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hm, actually fortune must not have been the program i was looking for, either that or i got the wrong one. This one displays bash quotes ands tuff, the other one displayed regular quotes, and quotes about computers, ect.
 
Old 02-11-2005, 12:24 PM   #6
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Did you install the UNIX console games? (Is that the Y package?) If you didn't, then you won't have fortune installed, and it won't work.
 
  


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