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Hi,

RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <rmvg@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I can not get my fortune command to work even though it does when i 
> login any ideas

try to do something like:

if [ -x `find / -type f -name "fortune" 2> /dev/null` ]; then \
echo "U should execute `find / -type f -name "fortune" 2> /dev/null`"; \
fi

It show you how to run fortune.

HTH

	Sven

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