Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

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Subject: Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?
From: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:58:42 +0200
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Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Or we could mimic FreeBSD behaviour: create a fortune-file with helpful
> tips for newbies, and add a line in the default initialization files
> (i.e., those in /etc/skel) for different shells that calls fortune for
> those tips.

You mean like fortunes-debian-hints[1]?

Kind regards

T.

1. http://packages.debian.org/fortunes-debian-hints
-- 
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

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