the fortune prog gets its quotations from /var/lib/games/fortune.
ensure /var/lib/games/fortune is both executable and readable by
all.
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, John Johnson II wrote:
JJI This question is not just about fortune -- the fortune cookie program. I
JJI think this problem may happen in other places also. Anyway I just installed
JJI fortune on my Linux (RH 5.1) system and I can't get the program to execute.
JJI (not even when logged on as root) the all users have execution rights for
JJI the file, so what gives?
JJI
JJI John (new and confused) Johnson II
JJI
JJI
JJI __
JJI / / __ ___ __ ____ __
JJI / /__ / // _ \/ // /\ \/ /
JJI /____//_//_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
JJI Wherever you want to go today...
JJI
--
It could have been an organically based disturbance of the brain -- perhaps a
tumor or a metabolic deficiency -- but after a thorough neurological exam it
was determined that Byron was simply a jerk.
-- Jeff Jahnke
