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From: "Danny Horne" <danny@clifftop.net>
To: "lewiz" <purple@lewiz.info>
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Subject: RE: Feeling pleased with myself but.....
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:58:51 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of lewiz
> Sent: Sunday 21 April 2002 11:46am
> To: Danny Horne
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Feeling pleased with myself but.....
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Sounds like you've either got the motd in /etc (try rm
> /etc/motd&&touch /etc/motd to make it blank) OR you're talking about
> fortune.  If you look at ~/.login there is a line [ -x
> /usr/games/fortune...  If you try commenting this out it might do the
> trick.  You could also check for other files containing fortune in /etc
> with: grep fortune /etc/* and then comment those out also.
>   Hope that's been of some help.
> 
Thanks Lewiz

It was fortune being run from .login
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