Re: rotating motd

From: Adam Maas (mykroft_at_explosive.mail.net)
Date: 05/30/03

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    To: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:29:29 -0400

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    From: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com>
    To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
    Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:25 PM
    Subject: rotating motd

    > 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!
    > Thanks,
    > ~John
    >
    >

    Slackware actually just throws Fortune into the login scripts. Fortune being
    a nifty app that gives out random quotes.

    Adam

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