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Subject: Re: where is fortune?
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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 ;-)

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