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Hey I know this is pretty pointless, but hey. On an earlier install I would get this interesting little quote about something at logon. Though entirely pointless, I want to ...
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- 03-19-2005 #1Linux Newbie
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Logon
Hey I know this is pretty pointless, but hey. On an earlier install I would get this interesting little quote about something at logon. Though entirely pointless, I want to spend a few days here during spring break reading them. They are very interesting and fun, often hilarious! So please answer me this pointless necessity.
- 03-19-2005 #2Linux Newbie
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You're looking for fortune. It's part of bsdgames*.tgz, which is found in /slackware/y on cd1.
OH NOOOOO!!!!!! You did it the way I said?
- 03-19-2005 #3Linux Guru
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Re: Logon
you can actually make it so everytime a cl is started one will come up
Originally Posted by Wesley/g Hey I know this is pretty pointless, but hey. On an earlier install I would get this interesting little quote about something at logon. Though entirely pointless, I want to spend a few days here during spring break reading them. They are very interesting and fun, often hilarious! So please answer me this pointless necessity.
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- 03-20-2005 #4Linux Newbie
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Ok thats cool. I got it on here now and just keep opening the shell from xwindow so I get a new one each time. I even got a nice one that says something about my hometown, Wisconsin Dells!
- 03-21-2005 #5Linux User
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continually typing the command 'fortune' would have the same effect
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