From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 16:22:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00566 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00473 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-151.laker.net [208.0.233.51]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id TAA00981; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:21:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199809172321.TAA00981@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Roman Katsnelson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:21:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: motd rotation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:40:28 -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote: >> In one message, which I've already deleted, I believe you indicated >> that you really wanted to change the motd each time someone logged >> in... >> >> If that's the case, how about simply creating a "fortune" database and >> replace the standard one with your's ?? >> > >wait, what's a fortune database? On most unix systems, there is a "game" program called "fortune" which displays witty quotes from famous or infamous people. A long time ago, I looked at it a little because I wanted to have my own collection of witty quotes... It could easily be adapted to your requirements, I believe... See man fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message