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Subject: Re: conf/6711: [PATCH ?] I've seen that fortune before
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Synopsis: [PATCH ?] I've seen that fortune before

State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed
State-Changed-By: hoek
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 11 12:12:39 PDT 1999
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Using "fortune all" won't really cause a decrease in the number of fortunes
that you read twice.  Examine the following,

b$ fortune -f
___% /usr/share/games/fortune
    ___% fortunes
    ___% fortunes2
b$ fortune -f all
___% /usr/share/games/fortune
    ___% fortunes
    ___% fortunes2
    ___% startrek
    ___% zippy
    ___% limerick
b$ ls -l fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy limerick
-r--r--r--  1 root  games   582273 May 28 04:31 fortunes
-r--r--r--  1 root  games  2063664 May 28 04:31 fortunes2
-r--r--r--  1 root  games   144252 May 28 04:31 limerick
-r--r--r--  1 root  games    27502 May 28 04:31 startrek
-r--r--r--  1 root  games    38744 May 28 04:31 zippy
b$

The problem of repeated fortunes is/was most likely a result of poor randomness,
which was fixed in FreeBSD 3 by using /dev/random to get better
randomness.

[Besides, I like to keep my star-trek and zippy quotes for special days -
].  

[Note that especially once limerick is moved to limeric-o, the additional
two fortune files make almost no difference to the total number of fortunes
available.].


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