On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:27:15AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Angus Auld wrote: > > Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a > > safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc > > file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @ > > login? > > I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found a > > few methods, but also warnings that certain processes > > can be broken by doing this. > > Your .bashrc should be completely silent. If it produces any output > then it will break 'scp' and 'rsync' at the least. Probably other > tools that use a remote shell such as cvs, git, etc. > > http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.9
"[...] for non-interactive sessions." [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -7 .bashrc echo echo "Fortune cookie:" echo fortune -a echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh localhost /bin/true [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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