Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:29:29 -0400 From: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rotating motd Message-ID: <044301c326ea$2bf783b0$7419cdcd@ticking> References: <20030530202516.56184.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: rotating motd > 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 > > Slackware actually just throws Fortune into the login scripts. Fortune being a nifty app that gives out random quotes. Adam
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