From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 13:25:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389F037B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40611.mail.yahoo.com (web40611.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA3B243F93 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deesto@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030530202516.56184.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [143.48.14.233] by web40611.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:25:16 PDT Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:25:16 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: rotating motd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:25:17 -0000 A trivial question, but a question nonetheless! My FreeBSD /etc/motd is a static and rather boring file. I recall that when I used to login to my Slackware machine, it spruced things up a bit by offering some sort of rotating motd, which would spit out a random quote or joke instead of the same ol' static message. Is there a way to simulate this in FreeBSD? Unfortunately, 'man motd' does little more than state the obvious, and describe a method by which to surpress the motd altogether. This, of course, occurs to me as I ssh into my home machine from work! Thanks, ~John --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).