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Re: Generate Fortune at startup

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Hamilton)
Fri Nov 13 10:35:26 1998

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:34:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Hamilton <gearhead@interport.net>
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Ronnie Thum wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> How can I generate a fortune at startup of my login ?

I did it by adding the following at the bottom of /etc/profile

/usr/games/fortune -a -e

you could use plain /usr/games/fortune 

check the man page of fortune for the options


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