On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:30:06AM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> Hrm. I thought it was quite common. I don't want to see a quote every
> time I open a terminal, log in, log out, etc.
>
> This way you just see it on the console, before the login prompt.
But that quote will only change when you reboot the system. And
there are quite a few people out there that just leave their system
up and running 24/7 - myself included. Now, like I said I've got it
set here in my .bashrc - if I wanted to see a quote *just* when I
logged in I'd take the fortune line out of my .bashrc and put it into
my .bash_profile
But really the main point is that the original asker specifically
said that he saw the quote every time he logged in - that pretty
much mandates that on his box the fortune command is being run
from either his .bashrc or his .bash_profile, and not from a
boot time script.
The way I see it - do whatever works best for you. I prefer seeing
a new quote every time I log in and you don't. That's fine. That's
part of what Linux is all about - you can tailor the system to the
way *you* want it to be, instead of being stuck with what some faceless
tech somewhere thinks that everyone should want.
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