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September 17th, 2002, 07:59 AM
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| Neat Terminal Welcome Hey, for those of you that use the terminal every now and again, did you know it is possible to modify the welcome message. just copy and paste this into a terminal window find /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* -exec calendar -f {} \; to edit the Message Of The Day pico /etc/motd or if you want to execute a command when a new terminal window is opened type pico .login then put what you want. I suggest something like echo Todays menu: find /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* -exec calendar -f {} \; uptime for to day this is what i get: Todays Menu: 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR) 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 09/17 National Heroes Day in Angola 09/18 Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe 11:56PM up 14 days, 6:25, 3 users, load averages: 0.57, 0.33, 0.33 fascinating!! at least its different every day! how does your terminal welcome you?
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September 19th, 2002, 01:12 AM
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| You can use Fink to install fortune, and then get a fortune cookie for every login. I like the calender one, though. I've never noticed that before.
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September 19th, 2002, 08:32 AM
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September 19th, 2002, 12:17 PM
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| I once wrote a program that grabbed the current stock price and calculated the value of my stock options every 15 minutes. I'd display their value every time I logged in. However, that got depressing so I shut it down.  Vanguard
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September 19th, 2002, 01:43 PM
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September 20th, 2002, 12:16 AM
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| Just be warned peoples: fortune -o provides fortunes that are potentially offensive. Actually, I did snoop around in man fortune and it is pretty neat.
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