Date: 01 Jan 2004 13:30:53 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fortune Message-ID: <44pte3jzc2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FF46570.2040509@mindcore.net> References: <BC199908.42349%payne@magidesign.com> <20040101151753.GA15989@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <44d6a3lf90.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3FF46570.2040509@mindcore.net>
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Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > > > > > >>On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can > >>>you tell me where I can get it. Thanks. > >>> > >>Install the games/freebsd-games port. > >> > > > >No, fortune isn't in there. It's still in the main tree. Is it maybe > >being installed to somewhere different? [Doesn't look like it from a > >quick Makefile check, but I may well have missed something...] > Is installed on my (5.1 through 5.2-CURRENT) system, in: > /usr/games/fortune - ELF binary > /usr/share/games/fortune/ - directory for furtune data files > > Is /usr/games in your PATH? (Unsure if this is the normal location > for it or not under FreeBSD, although IMHO it still belongs in a bin > directory...) It's the normal location -- that's where it's been since it entered FreeBSD in the first place, back around 1994. /usr/games is the traditional BSD place from well before that.
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