You want a motd? Put something pithy in /etc/motd You want fortune telling? Do: yum search fortune and make your own installation decision. W. Nick Dotson writes: > In the Intro to Linux, in chapter 2, where it is telling one how to log onto the system in text versus graphical mode. He say, > "When the system has accepted you as a valid user, you may get some more information, called the message of the day, which can be anything. Additionally, > it is popular on UNIX systems to display a fortune cookie, which contains some general wise or unwise (this is up to you) thoughts. After that, you will > be given a shell, indicated with the same prompt that you would get in graphical mode." > > Can we have that in Fedora/Lunux? If so, is it hard to setup and configure, perhaps way farther in the manual? (grin) > > Nick > > > W. Nick Dotson > Technical Support Group > Senior Support Engineer for Kurzweil 1000 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.