Lionel and Brian....on my Mandrake 6.1 CD there is no fortune, but there
is a kfortune that runs in KDE.
Alan
"Brian K. Garel" wrote:
>
> > Lionel Barrow wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My
> > first experience with Linux was an old Slackware distribution from
> > 1995. I knew nothing of it then and paid little or no attention until
> > early this year. That old distribution had a random message of the day
> > that would come up when you logged in. It varied from jokes, to thinks
> > to think about etc.... My question is if there is similar utility that
> > I can download to give me similar functionality in Redhat 6.1. Thanks
> > in advance guys:)
>
> You should be able to download a program called fortune (actually it
> should be on your distribution disk) This is the program you are
> looking for...what you could do is just run it from a .login file when
> you login or .profile depending on your shell.
> --
> Brian K. Garel ICQ #1598357
>
> "Seize the time...Live now; make now always
> the most precious time. Now will never come
> again" -- Picard (The Inner Light)
