> > A trivial question, but a question nonetheless! My FreeBSD /etc/motd is a static > and rather boring file. I recall that when I used to login to my Slackware machine, > it spruced things up a bit by offering some sort of rotating motd, which would spit > out a random quote or joke instead of the same ol' static message. Is there a way > to simulate this in FreeBSD? Unfortunately, 'man motd' does little more than state > the obvious, and describe a method by which to surpress the motd altogether. > This, of course, occurs to me as I ssh into my home machine from work!
Just run 'fortune' from within your .cshrc or whatever shell startup script. That's what does it. see man fortune ////jerry > Thanks, > ~John > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
