From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 15:48:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7474A37B400 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:48:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g19NhkN04853; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:43:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C65B648.9080302@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:52:40 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Radzinschi Cc: FreeBDS-Questions Subject: Re: Is mergemaster necessary? References: <20020209150719.R4513-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marco Radzinschi wrote: > Also, how do I get rid of those annoying "hints" that show up when I log > in? Where is the hints program launching from? Your login config is running the fortune(6) program. Depending on your shell, ~/.profile or ~/.login may be the culprit. Read the docs for whatever login shell you're using and edit the appropriate file to stop it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message