Kevin B. O'Brien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I was trying to get fortune to point to my own collection of taglines
> for a sig file when it seems to have stopped working altogether. When
> I run it in a terminal window I get no errors, but I don't get any
> output either. I assume I did something to screw it up, but I don't
> know what or where I should start to fix it. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
well, to see if somehow the binary is there,
try the full path, to find the full path, in a terminal, type
$ whereis fortune
fortune: /usr/games/fortune /usr/share/man/man6/fortune.6.bz2
thats where mine is. Then type the full path,
$ /usr/games/fortune
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
-- Ogden Nash
also, check the file itself:
$ ls -l /usr/games/fortune
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17K Jun 7 2004 fortune
Then see if you can get a list of files that are defaulted for
$ fortune -f
100.00% /usr/share/games/fortunes
0.83% MS-FORTUNES
2.85% art
0.06% ascii-art
1.25% law
6.37% computers
7.06% cookie
...
..
> --
> Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216
> "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
> learned to walk." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
whats this Kevin, is this generated or an already generated
one, re-hashed ?
Hopefully that leads to some indiacation.
--
RickS
~ Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering ~
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