Re: [newbie] Fortune Murphy/Fortune Top 100

2002-12-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 19:49, Michael Adams wrote: > Stephen - bash handles appending > thus > > date > /tmp/fortune.txt > fortune >> /tmp/fortune.txt > uptime >> /tmp/fortune.txt > > fortune > /etc/motd > > should a

Re: [newbie] Fortune Murphy/Fortune Top 100

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:08, mike wrote: > > I was wondering how you use these programs.I found the man page for > > "Fortune" but nothing for these other thingies. > > > > Mike > > FORTUNE lies in /usr/games - hence, not in the path. > > You can cre

Re: [newbie] Fortune Murphy/Fortune Top 100

2002-12-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:08, mike wrote: > I was wondering how you use these programs.I found the man page for "Fortune" > but nothing for these other thingies. > > Mike FORTUNE lies in /usr/games - hence, not in the path. You can create a symlink to the binary, though - by doing: ln -s /usr/g

[newbie] Fortune Murphy/Fortune Top 100

2002-12-28 Thread mike
I was wondering how you use these programs.I found the man page for "Fortune" but nothing for these other thingies. Mike > Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Sat Dec 28 19:08:08 EST 2002 7:08pm up 1 day, 4:38, 2

[newbie] fortune

2002-02-05 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi , sorry, figured it out strfile -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 - What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if

[newbie] fortune

2002-02-05 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi , just wondering how to create my own quotes to use with 'fortune' I know you use fortune but how do you create the .dat file ? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 --

Re: [newbie] Fortune on login

2000-09-22 Thread flupke
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tyler Longren wrote: > Hello everybody, > > How do I make fortune execute after a user logs in? Just like > /etc/motd. I've read a few articles on how to do this, but I haven't > been able to get any of them to work. I think that it should work simply by installing fortun

[newbie] Fortune on login

2000-09-21 Thread Tyler Longren
Hello everybody, How do I make fortune execute after a user logs in? Just like /etc/motd. I've read a few articles on how to do this, but I haven't been able to get any of them to work. Regards, Tyler Longren

Re: [newbie] fortune

2000-01-30 Thread dave williamson
Ribbo wrote: > and for friends, i want to share a little about fortune. > if you want to read fortune every time you log to the console, put this > lines to your /etc/profile : Thanks! So THAT'S what used to run back in my slackware days! I missed it in Mandrake but didn't make much effort to

Re: [newbie] fortune

2000-01-29 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, David Odin (aka DindinX) wrote: > If you want your sig to change from time to time, put this script to your > crontab: > > #!/bin/bash Thanx David, do you have another suggestion? thats nice but sometimes i also want to put my name to my sig (maybe i

Re: [newbie] fortune

2000-01-25 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:20:08PM +0700, Ribbo wrote: > does anybody knows how to put fortune as email signature automaticaly. > i use mutt with vim > Create a file named .signature in your home directory. It would be put automatically at the end of your mails. If you want your sig to chang

[newbie] fortune

2000-01-25 Thread Ribbo
does anybody knows how to put fortune as email signature automaticaly. i use mutt with vim -- Rib