Re: question about fortune at login

2006-09-13 Thread Jerold McAllister
David Kelly writes: On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! Look and see where it is being invoked. That is commonly in .login but could be in any file. If

Re: question about fortune at login

2006-09-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:56:59 -0400 Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

question about fortune at login

2006-09-12 Thread Jonathan Horne
what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! i would just as soon prefer to not see it when i log into my systems. can someone point me in the right direction? chmod -x on the binary seems to work... but i would rather

Re: question about fortune at login

2006-09-12 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! Depends on what shell you are using, but with tcsh moving ~/.login to ~/dot.login ended fortune for me via ssh login.