Re: [Hampshire] Message of the Day

Are you thinking of fortune?

timb@Frodo:~$ fortune
Beware of a tall black man with one blond shoe.

Tim B.


On Saturday 24 May 2008 18:04, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can someone remind me the name of that little "application" that used to
> say something humorous / interesting when you login? I thought it was
> called message of the day or motd but looking on my Ubuntu box, that just
> dumps the contents of /var/run/motd out to the console on login.
>
> It may have been discontinued - I'm sure the first time I saw it was back
> on HP-UX many years ago.
>
> Cheers
> Rob