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Not the normal I love/hate the fortune cookie that comes up when starting an interactive bash shell. I'm just curious.

What magically adds the call of mint-fortune to the end of the /etc/bash.bashrc file, which it does not have when it arrives from Ubuntu Land?

Environment -- Linux Mint 10, 64-bit, Gnome.

PS OK, since you ask, I comment out that line. If I'm opening a terminal window I'm probably doing something useful and not playing so I don't want to be distracted. I imagine it would make any suit thinking of switching their business from Windows to Linux think twice. Anyway, unless I misread the code, it seems that not only will it be configurable soon, but also the default will be off.

mintsystem does this.

Look for it in synaptic then look at 'properties'.

viking777 wrote:mintsystem does this.

Look for it in synaptic then look at 'properties'.

Thanks for the reply, but I still couldn't see it. In "mintsystem_7.7.3_all.deb" I can see mint-fortune and rtfm being added, and a synaptic glade file being replaced on package installation. I can also see the init.d addition that'll overwrite a whole bunch of files on each system startup. What I can't see is what appends the last line to /etc/bash.bashrc (i.e. the call to mint-fortune) once only.

So I guess nobody knows what adds this? Perhaps it'll at least be guarded by a check for the executable in Linux Mint 11?

Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal
by clem on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:47 am

- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem