question about fortune at login

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:56:59 -0400
"Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:

> > What I don't much care for is the large /etc/motd which ships stock  with 
> > FreeBSD. So that and /etc/hosts are the only files I hack and  override 
> > manually when using mergemaster.
> 
> The motd is supposed to be frequently update.  It was originally intended
> for the system manager to post messages to users about whatever was
> happening to the system - such as a notice that it would be down for
> maintenance that evening.   That is why it was called 'Message Of The Day'. 

to get rid of motd on login:

touch ~/.hushlogin

fortune is being called by one of your shell startup scripts. if bash (as the
others have been covered already), look for ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc (and
~/.bash_logout ... if you need for actions when logging out.


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