On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:29, Jack Coates wrote: > X or no? you can just put it at the end of .bashrc, but you'll break > less and probably some other stuff :-). If you want it when you login to > X, look for a fortune-shower for your favorite DE (say > http://gfort.sourceforge.net/) and put a link to it in > ~/Desktop/Autostart.
Actually I've seen it at the end of /etc/motd. (man motd for absolutely no help what-so-ever *grin*) Here is the info on how the Linux-from-itch people do it... might help. http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002/06/0015.html James > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 19:44, kiosk wrote: > > Robert - I'm not in a hurry. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I like the > > traditional ways of wasting time, like fortune - for me, fortune has > > always been one of the main attractions of linux. My slackware > > installation on my old box gives me a fortune every time I log on. With > > MDK I have to run it. I need to work out which script I need to modify in > > MDK in order to have fortune acknowledge my logging on. I also need to > > find out how to get asterisks for passwords. In slackware it was explained > > in a comment in some file or other. So little time - so much to do! > ...
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