On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:08, mike wrote: > > I was wondering how you use these programs.I found the man page for > > "Fortune" but nothing for these other thingies. > > > > Mike > > FORTUNE lies in /usr/games - hence, not in the path. > > You can create a symlink to the binary, though - by doing: > > ln -s /usr/games/fortune /usr/bin/fortune > > ...the fortune datafiles lie in /usr/share/games/fortune - so if > download heaps of dat files for fortune, you can have thousands and > thousands of non-repeating fortunes - jeepers! > > You can do amazing things with those fortunes - such as how a custom > signature is created...the following is an example of the script that I > use to generate a new signature every five minutes (running the script > through KCron): > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > date > /tmp/date.txt > fortune > /tmp/fortune.txt > uptime > /tmp/uptime.txt > > > sed r /tmp/date.txt /tmp/uptime.txt > /tmp/mdate.txt > > sed r /tmp/mdate.txt /root/signature.txt > /tmp/signature_temp.txt > > sed r /tmp/signature_temp.txt /tmp/fortune.txt > > /root/final_signature.txt > > fortune > /etc/motd > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The last bit sends an motd to each user that logs in...not really > necessary, but cute...
Stephen - bash handles appending thus ---------------------------------------- date > /tmp/fortune.txt fortune >> /tmp/fortune.txt uptime >> /tmp/fortune.txt fortune > /etc/motd ---------------------------------------- should achieve the same thing. By the way is motd a standard thing? If not how do you implement it? Presumably it means "message of the day". -- Michael
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