Messages at login

[Hal Duston]

Greg Kedrovsky wrote:
> Where do the goofy messages come from when I login to my Slack 9.1?
> 
> I installed Slack several months ago. Whenever I log in as a user or
> root, I get a quippy little message. Some are funny. Some are
> insightful. Some are dumb. But, none of them can I control (at the
> moment). Where are these goofy messages called from? It's gotta be a rc
> start-up script file, right? Calls a random text file buried somewhere
> in Slack's file structure. ??

Slackware specific answer follows:

/etc/profile.d/bsh-games-login-fortune.[c]sh

which is called from /etc/profile.

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Hal Duston