James, I think MOTD is an excellent suggestion. I guess it would work somewhat like a random sig generator, in that respect. I don't really need to do it with X- I always boot to a text login. I would probably have considered MOTD, if there were no one to ask. PITA that I am, I tend to wonder if there is a MDK way for this type of thing.
Of course I now have the problem of understanding the LFS hint. I will get there in the end and be a lot wiser, i'm sure. No help please. Unless I come back begging :) Also, I'm still wondering if anyone knows about showing asterisks for the password. My daughter keeps asking why we can't have asterisks to show how many characters have been typed. I quite like the asterisks too. Sorry to have hijacked this thread, BTW. Hoping you-all will want to show how knowledge of time present relates to time past ;-) Respect! Janet Blankfield - hoping she isn't trying to blend various distros into a grey goo! "The ideal love affair is one conducted by post." JBS ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... life's a beach ... ----------------------------- On 06 Jul 2003 20:49:30 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:29, Jack Coates wrote: > > X or no? you can just put it at the end of .bashrc, but you'll break > > less and probably some other stuff :-). If you want it when you login > > to X, look for a fortune-shower for your favorite DE (say > > http://gfort.sourceforge.net/) and put a link to it in > > ~/Desktop/Autostart. > > Actually I've seen it at the end of /etc/motd. (man motd for absolutely > no help what-so-ever *grin*) > > Here is the info on how the Linux-from-itch people do it... might help. > > http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002/06/0015.html > > James > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 19:44, kiosk wrote: > > > Robert - I'm not in a hurry. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I like the > > > traditional ways of wasting time, like fortune - for me, fortune has > > > always been one of the main attractions of linux. My slackware > > > installation on my old box gives me a fortune every time I log on. > > > With MDK I have to run it. I need to work out which script I need to > > > modify in MDK in order to have fortune acknowledge my logging on. I > > > also need to find out how to get asterisks for passwords. In > > > slackware it was explained in a comment in some file or other. So > > > little time - so much to do!
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