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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:39:27 -0500
From:      daniel quinn <freebsd@danielquinn.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: where is fortune?
Message-ID:  <200412291339.27899.freebsd@danielquinn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041229183421.GB9133@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200412291155.31759.freebsd@danielquinn.org> <20041229183421.GB9133@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On December 29, 2004 01:34 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:55:31AM -0500, daniel quinn wrote:
> > i'm totally new to bsd, so forgive me if this sounds like a stupid
> > question. but after doing a minimal install, i can't find fortune -- even
> > though the default login scripts try to execute it.  and "whereis
> > fortune" returns nothing.  i have ports, but it's not in there either. 
> > how do i get it?
>
> It's in the 'games' distribution, which is not included in the minimal
> install because it's well, not minimally required to run FreeBSD.

wonderful.  thank you all for your responses.  i now have fortune back ;-)

-- 
real men don't make backups.
they upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it.
  - Linus Torvalds



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