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Date:      Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:11:05 +0200
From:      Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 11.0 disable fortune freebsd-tips
Message-ID:  <20161021121105.GA51911@becker.bs.l>
In-Reply-To: <20161021003854.GA73198@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
References:  <58095D71.8060804@gmail.com> <20161021003854.GA73198@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>

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On Friday, 21. Oct 2016, 02:38:54 +0200, 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) - f)

g) Set WITHOUT_GAMES in src.conf before making buildworld/installworld.

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
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http://www.bertram-scharpf.de



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