Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:04:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: deesto@yahoo.com (John DeStefano) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rotating motd Message-ID: <200305310204.h4V24SVF009014@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030530202516.56184.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> from "John DeStefano" at May 30, 2003 01:25:16 PM
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> > 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! Just run 'fortune' from within your .cshrc or whatever shell startup script. That's what does it. see man fortune ////jerry > Thanks, > ~John >
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