Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:04:12 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> Cc: Freebsd Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 11.0 disable fortune freebsd-tips Message-ID: <5809698C.2020106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161021003854.GA73198@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> References: <58095D71.8060804@gmail.com> <20161021003854.GA73198@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
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Alphons van Werven wrote: > Ernie Luzar wrote: > >> In 11.0 user logins now get freebsd-tips. > > Maybe I've missed something, but that doesn't sound new to me at all. The > fortune cookies have been in the default user environment for pretty much > as long as I can remember. > >> Is there a simple way to disable this feature? > > If nothing spectacularly new happened (i.e. if in this matter FreeBSD 11 > is no different than earlier versions), one can disable the fortune > cookies in any of the following ways. > > a) Remove the user's ~/.login and/or ~/.profile files if there's nothing > else of note in there. > > b) Modify the user's ~/.login and/or ~/.profile files and comment out the > fortune line. > > c) Remove and/or rename the /usr/games/fortune binary. > > d) Don't install fortune(6) in the first place. > > e) When adding users, do not copy the default environment into the user's > home directory. > > f) Modify the default environment for new users. It's in /usr/share/skel. > Remove or modify the files dot.login and/or dot.profile in there (see > options a and/or b). > > Please note: > * options a and b affect existing individual users; > * options c and d affect all users; > * options e and f affect newly created users. > > HTH, > > Fonz > Thanks for the info. option d) tickled my memory. bsdinstall in 11.0 has new option for enabling "fortune" by default. During install from cdrom.iso I just hit enter to take all defaults without reading the comments. My mistake. Now that 11.0 is installed and customized for my environment I have chosen to do c) as simple hake to disable it.
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