Angus Auld wrote: > Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a > safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc > file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @ > login? > I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found a > few methods, but also warnings that certain processes > can be broken by doing this. Your .bashrc should be completely silent. If it produces any output then it will break 'scp' and 'rsync' at the least. Probably other tools that use a remote shell such as cvs, git, etc. http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.9 Bob
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