On Wednesday 07 March 2001 10:00 pm, Steve Young wrote:
> i installed fortune-mod-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm and now every time i log in or
> run a shell script it pops up a fortune, i can't figure out how to turn
> it off but still keep it on my system anyone ever have this problem or
> know a fix?
In your home directory lives a file .bash_profile. There is most likely a
section there that reads something like:
echo
/usr/bin/fortune
echo
causing a blank line, the fortune program to run, and another blank line.
Just remove that line.
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