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Old 02-05-2006, 01:17 PM   #1
Zeno McDohl
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Remove random quotes on login?

How do I turn off those quotes on login? Like this:
Quote:
Banectomy, n.:
The removal of bruises on a banana.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
 
Old 02-05-2006, 01:25 PM   #2
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Maybe chmod -x /usr/games/fortune will help you.
 
Old 02-05-2006, 01:27 PM   #3
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Okay well now I get:
Quote:
-bash: /usr/games/fortune: Permission denied
On login. I don't want that.
 
Old 02-05-2006, 01:29 PM   #4
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a simple search of the forum would have given you:

chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games*
 
Old 02-05-2006, 01:31 PM   #5
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Won't that chmod all the bsdgames? I just want fortune gone.
 
Old 02-05-2006, 01:31 PM   #6
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chmod -x /etc/profile.d/*fortune*

also works
 
Old 02-05-2006, 04:12 PM   #7
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Possibly this will help you: Those Mysterious Quotations and Sayings When Logging In
 
Old 02-05-2006, 04:31 PM   #8
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take a look in /etc/profile:
Code:
# Append any additional sh scripts found in /etc/profile.d/:
for file in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -x $file ]; then
    . $file
  fi
done
the bsd* scripts in /etc/profile.d are just a call to fortune - chmod'ing or renaming them won't kill fortune
 
Old 02-05-2006, 06:54 PM   #9
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Genesee
take a look in /etc/profile:
Code:
# Append any additional sh scripts found in /etc/profile.d/:
for file in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -x $file ]; then
    . $file
  fi
done
the bsd* scripts in /etc/profile.d are just a call to fortune - chmod'ing or renaming them won't kill fortune
No?

hmmm, it worked for me.
 
Old 02-05-2006, 10:01 PM   #10
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won't kill as in
at any time you can still do `fortune`
manually at the command line


i suppose
 
  


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