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Re: Maybe ITP: linuxtips - "Tip of the day"-Message-Viewer.



Daniel Migowski <Mig-O@Mig-O.de> wrote:
>I think, that it would be fine for new linux-users to have some "TIP of the 
>day"-Message shown each time the users logs into his system, or opens a shell.
>I just write a little program, that displays those tips randomly, like 
>'bible', with a replaced dictionary. 
>
>Are there any suggestions on having a thing like that, or would you find it 
>annoying having such a thing installed? ...as default?

If you do this, could you implement it as a fortune database, please?
Any "tip of the day program" would be best as a wrapper around fortune,
IMHO.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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